http://www.bloggernews.net/14248 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:30:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.bloggernews.net/14248#comment-1314 peterbroady Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:16:43 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/14248#comment-1314 While I cannot be said to be wholly a pacifist, the non-violent movement's time has come. The idea for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years has been that you fight wars so that you can have peace. Well, look at the present...the 20th century was the bloodiest one in human history. So it's obviously not working, and not going to work. Prospects for solving things with violence already look dim for the 21st century, obviously. So I agree with Mandela completely here, and definitely want to see variants of Gandhi's philosophy and strategy applied in all sorts of scenarios. It occurs to me that we could even do this on a government level, if we wanted to. Can you imagine a president organizing the army or encouraging the people to practice non-violent resistance? That would be something. While I cannot be said to be wholly a pacifist, the non-violent movement’s time has come. The idea for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years has been that you fight wars so that you can have peace. Well, look at the present…the 20th century was the bloodiest one in human history. So it’s obviously not working, and not going to work. Prospects for solving things with violence already look dim for the 21st century, obviously. So I agree with Mandela completely here, and definitely want to see variants of Gandhi’s philosophy and strategy applied in all sorts of scenarios. It occurs to me that we could even do this on a government level, if we wanted to. Can you imagine a president organizing the army or encouraging the people to practice non-violent resistance? That would be something.

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