This guy's a poet, man. Anyone check out his blog?
I'll take the liberty of posting an original Global Crier poem here:
PeaceLet there be more love
World leaders that are doves
A world with fewer guns
More mothers with their sons
Instead of fighting war
We help the poor
With all of our might
We are not always right
People have to care
To make things fair
Let there be more flowers
With all of our powers
Let there be peace
In the Middle EastOkay, Saint Francis it ain't, but what it lacks in style it makes up for in sentiment.
A perusal of the blog also shows that Global Crier isn't a USA-bashing peacenik. Just a normal peacenik. If that matters to anyone.
And he makes some good points, but I do not believe this is true:
Only by establishing a Department of Peace within the United States government can a balance between peace and war be established.
because we have no Department of War. If we did, then you might be able to make the argument. What we have is a Department of Defense. And in fact, in the history of its existence the DOD has more often been busy maintaining peace than maintaining war. Strategic arms may have offended you, but they likely maintained peace for all the cold war except for the period 1950-53 and 1965-73. Or to quote Colonel Jessup, "I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide, then question the manner in which I provide it. I prefer you said thank you, and went on your way."
