Anybody who thought the idea of a Department of Peace was a wacky idea might want to rethink that.

May 17, 2021 · 8:26 PM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson
If we added a DoP and funded that with a fraction of what we give the Pentagon (along with new funds for the Peace Corp), the world would become a much brighter place.
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You might want, then, to come up with a department of democratic ownership of productive resources to make your dept of peace possible....
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Wont happen. There’s no money in it. Arms sales fuel the need to use arms which fuels the need to buy more arms. Follow the money.
Replying to @marwilliamson
Marianne, you get the last laugh on all of it. Everything you said, thank you very much.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Whatever you call it, a Department of Peace is just a Department of War with this country. We use our military to spread peace at the barrel of a gun.
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You mean a dept. of not giving Israel $4 billion a year in military aid so they can blow up Palestinian women and children with our F-15s and 2000 lb. bombs?
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War is too costly in too many ways
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It’s poor utopia. Sorry!