22 September 2006

What Chavez and Ahmadinejad both understand about peace

In their respective speeches before the United (against the U. S. A.) Nations, both Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad discounted the President’s claims that the U. S. government wants peace. This they do because we are presently at war. If we wanted peace, I suppose, we wouldn’t be at war. War is not the way to persue peace.

I happen to believe that both Chavez and Ahmadinejad understand that in fact peace can be secured through war. Their problem is not that they think we don’t want peace. Their problem is that peace, when it comes through war, is on the victor’s terms. The victor’s terms—that’s their problem with this war. Well, that’s their problem with the probability that we will win this war.

This problem is rather similar to the left’s problem with President Bush: It’s not that he’s a dictator (if we grant them the assertion); it’s that he’s not a leftist dictator. Harsh, I know. But what else can we conclude after observing the leaders from around the world whom these people do like? You know, the kind of people to whom they will give standing ovations and so forth.

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