U.S. Department of Peace

[Senior citizen]

I recently read a piece by Will Pitt about why we're at war. It boils down to the fact that war is our country's business--that's what we do. So I was struck by a flyer at one of the tables at a recent Defending Democracy conference, detailing the bill in Congress to establish a Cabinet level Department of Peace.

If you go to the link and click media, you'll find a copy of the flyer detailing the major points of the bill. Walter Cronkite likes it. Dennis Kucinich likes it. And I like it. Some of the additional offices that would be established within the Department of Peace would be the Offices of Domestic and of International Peace Activities, the Office of Technology for Peace, the Office of Arms Control and Disarmament, and the Office of Peaceful Coexistence and Nonviolent Conflict Resolution. The Secretary of Peace would serve as delegate to the National Security Council.

My only quibble with the bill is that the Department of Peace would merely "advise" the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. I think our Ambassador to the U.N. should be from the Department of Peace. Whoever it is would be a whole lot better than Bolton.

www.afdop.org

[moof]

1. Yes, lets not discuss abything as positive as peace here at DU.

Kick for peace and freedom , not that there's much freedom either.

[Eugene]

2. The mission sounds nice, but

a new superagency with BushCo in charge
would have the same problems as the State Dept.
which is responsible for most of this already.

The crossover of domestic and international policy
and the Orwellian sounding name set off too many
alarm bells.

[Senior citizen]

3. It would never pass with BFEE in charge--not to worry. n/t