When I began this blog in 2001, I was appalled by President Bush's headlong rush to an illegal war (we were not in fact under attack). As time wore on and Bush began his assault on the Constitution and any people bold enough to criticize, I believed that "the republic is endangered more by actions of our own government than by those of any terrorist." With the election of a high-minded, compassionate, intelligent man like Barack Obama, my fears have ceased.
"Honor them with peace, not war"
United for Peace
Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Pres. Bush has promised us (or threatened us with?) perpetual war. This is not a desirable state. As Thomas Hobbes states in The Leviathan:
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Perpetual war
Pres. Bush has promised us (or threatened us with?) perpetual war. This is not a desirable state. As Thomas Hobbes states in The Leviathan:
... In such condition [perpetual war ] there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Palema
8:20 PM
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