The great humorist, Jerome K. Jerome, suggested many years ago that, “... we all love peace, but not peace at any price.”
Peace is a paradox, especially when applied to the world of politics. Peace is only a reality between states that are friendly towards each other. They, after all, do not need to make peace. But the nation that strives for peace with an implacable enemy can only find it when both parties have reached sufficient deterrent power to prevent warfare.
The peaceniks, the liberal groups, the leftists, and all those who shout out the vacuous phrase, "peace and justice," have turned those once noble words into soiled and tarnished rags. They have become the very folk who, through one of life's supreme ironies, shout down other voices - often attended by their own violent acts - and thus become guilty of the very behavior they claim to oppose. READ MORE