What are conservative objections to a "Department of Peace"?

[Dickie Flatt]

[BulletproofLandshark]

1. There's no profit for them in peace

[Wickerman]

4. exactly

no profit in peace. :eyes:

[deadparrot]

2. Peace is for wimps.

Go home, hippys!!

:P

[Eric J in MN]

3. That the State Dept. does everything a Peace Dept. would (nt)

nt

[dansolo]

8. Actually, I agree with this point

The State Department should be doing all that the Dept. of Peace would be responsible for, without adding a whole different bureaucracy. As Bush has clearly shown, it is the people who are selected for the cabinet that will determine the focus of the Department. If a President wants to promote peace, he will select members in his/her cabinet that follow the same ideology. If they don't, then having a Department of Peace will serve absolutely no purpose. Just think for a moment. Who would George Bush select as a Secretary of Peace? That should tell you how pointless another Cabinet level Department would be. Personally, I think that the whole idea of a Department of Peace is merely pandering to the anti-war crowd.

[TheVirginian]

9. Six replies and this is the only real answer.

Good job.

[Lecky]

13. Sucks that the State Department is full of neocons...

for them peace is not an option.

[joemurphy]

5. It's not under the control of the Dept. of Homeland Security. n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. They think it sounds hippie-ish and wussy.

Real men don't do peace; peace is for pussies. Real men do war. War is manly. None of that tree-huggin,' tofu-eatin,' Birkenstock-wearin,' girly-man stuff for them, nosirree Bob. You got big brass ones, you go kill some funnly-lookin furriners who don't love Jesus. That's what real men do. None of that nancy-boy peace stuff.

That's why peace is Bad. It makes their peckers limp.

[amber dog democrat]

7. Nobody would fear us

when we come to shake down their third world nations for natural resources.

[win_in_06]

10. the SecPeace and SecWar(Def) would never get along

[robre]

11. How about the opposite?

Call it the Department of War. It's easy for the public to lose sight of what is going on if it's called the Department of "Defense."

[TankLV]

12. That's the original name for it.

Changing the name would only be in the footsteps of historical precedence.

And focusing on the bigger goal would be nice for a change.

But for now, I agree. We need to call a spade a spade and revert back to what the department actually stands for and spends it's time doing, unfortunately.

[ladylibertee]

14. KILL Everyone and take their oil?

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