Re: Tommy Franks/WMD/US Constitution

[Jurriaan Bendien <bendien@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If General Franks ends his story with the conclusion that "It's not in the
history of civilization for peace ever to reign. Never has in the history of
man. ... I doubt that we'll ever have a time when the world will actually be
at peace." then perhaps we ought to start there, making a distinction
between a mode of relating which engenders violent conflict, and a mode of
relating which engenders non-violent conflict. The foundational premise of
the military enterprise, is that violent intervention really solves a
problem that could not be solved otherwise, or at least, solves more
problems than it creates. And I think we can legitimately question that,
when we look at the state of the world after centuries of imperialist
violence.

Jurriaan