Peace Worth Living

"The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war.
We do not want a war. We do not now expect a war.
This generation of Americans has already had enough
--more than enough--of war and hate and oppression.

JFK'S PEACE FOR ALL TIME

Confident and unafraid, we labor on
--not toward a strategy of annihilation
but toward a strategy of peace."
~ JFK, June 10, 1963

"Whichever power controls equatorial Africa, or the countries of the Middle East, or Southern India, or the Indonesian Archipelago, disposes also of the bodies of scores or hundreds of millions of ill-paid and hard-working coolies. The inhabitants of these areas, reduced more or less openly to the status of slaves, pass continually from conqueror to conqueror, and are expended like so much coal or oil in the race to turn out more armaments, to capture more territory... to control more labour power... to turn out more armaments... to capture more territory... and so on indefinitely."

He could have been talking about Iraq, so truthful is his analysis of what the experience is like for the people living there.

While reading the article "War Would Be 'Catastrophic' for Iraqi Children"* describing how "with war looming, Iraqi children are fearful, anxious and depressed. Many have nightmares. And 40 percent do not think that life is worth living" I was reminded of JFK's "Strategy of Peace" speech, where he said:

"What kind of peace do I mean? What kind of peace do we seek?
Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war.
Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave.
I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living,
the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children -
not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women -
not merely peace in our time but peace for all time."

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we'd been given the chance for the kind of peace JFK imagined? But since his brutal assassination nearly forty years ago, the wars have gone on continuously. If ever there was a need for a Time Machine, it is now. I wish we could go backwards instead of forwards, and get another chance for peace. ~ Jackie Jura

ZIONISM IN AMERICA (Kissinger, speaking for USA, justifies new policy of attacking first instead of just in self-defence)

Listen to JFK's Strategy of Peace" speech in its entirety (JFK announces the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. He was murdered five months later. That's what the forces in this world do with the really TRUE men of peace - they kill them. And then they go about their nasty war business in peace - THEIR peace, their WAR IS PEACE peace. ~ JJ)

Jackie Jura
~ an independent researcher monitoring local, national and international events ~