Male feminist socialist cowards Peaceful negotiations have deadly price
Paper Socialist Soldiers
Kevin Beaton
Times Colonist
Sunday, February 23, 2003
I heard a peace protester from the Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific
say on the evening news, "I honestly don't believe peace and democracy can
be achieved through war." I have to wonder what is written in the history
books at that college.
So far, the price of peaceful negotiations has been at least six million
Jews, 1.7 million Cambodians, 1.5 million Yugoslavian Serbs, 500,000 Rwandan
Tutsis, 200,000 East Timorese, and 200,000 Guatemalans, for a minimum grand
total of 10.1 million dead while the UN and its predecessor, the League of
Nations, used "economic sanctions" and sought "peaceful diplomatic
solutions" -- in other words, did essentially nothing.
Liberating Germany, France, Italy, Denmark, etc., from the clutches the
Nazis did lead to peace and democracy. So did bombing Japan for that matter.
Historical examples abound world-wide to show freedom and democracy must be
fought for, and it makes me wonder if these protesters understand the real
price their forefathers paid.
They didn't go to Europe to wave placards, sing songs, chant peace slogans,
and hug one another. They gave their lives for the freedom we enjoy today.
Kevin Beaton,
Victoria.
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