Talk about your all-time confusion. I’ve been misled for years on the meaning of the word “peace”. According to the dictionary, it means, “The absence of war or other hostilities.”
But according to the Left, it means something very different:
Nobel Peace Prize recipient has this to say about President George W. Bush:
“Right now, I would love to kill George Bush.”
How peaceful of her.
And don’t forget what they call the Religion of Peace:
At least five people have been killed in Afghanistan as protests against European cartoons mocking the Prophet Muhammad swept across the country.
…and:
Hardline Islamic courts shut cinema halls and barred residents from watching the World Cup, prompting scores of civilians to protest the ban in which two people were killed, court officials and residents have said.
The gunmen loyal to the Joint Islamic Courts (JIC), cut electricity, cleared cinema halls and warned residents against watching the football tournament in areas they control, forcing a violent protest late on Saturday in which two people were killed, residents said Sunday.
…and:
19 men affiliated with al-Qaeda hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. Each team of hijackers included a trained pilot. The pilots of two teams crashed two planes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, one plane into each tower, causing both towers to collapse within two hours. The pilot of the third team crashed a plane into the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia. Passengers and members of the flight crew on the fourth hijacked aircraft attempted to retake control of their plane from the hijackers; that plane crashed into a field in rural Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Approximately 3,000 people died in these attacks.
Of course, they also have their Peace Protests:
A protest march of at least 1,500 demonstrators against war in Iraq turned violent Sunday in downtown Brussels when dozens of youths clashed with police and attacked American-owned businesses.
Masked, stone-throwing youths broke windows at a McDonald’s fast food restaurant and a Marriot hotel, as well as a local temporary employment agency.
Let’s also not forget how they defined the Clinton years as the longest period of “Peace” and prosperity. A period when we saw:
- The first World Trade Center bombing (March, 1993)
- The bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City (April, 1995)
- The bombing of a U.S. military barracks in Saudi Arabia (June, 1996)
- The bombing of U.S. embassy in Kenya (August, 1998)
- The bombing of U.S. embassy in Tanzania (August, 1998)
- The attack on the U.S.S. Cole (October, 2000)
Maybe Bush was wrong to declare a “War on Terror”. If he’d followed the Left’s example and declared a “Peace on Terror” we could’ve eliminated more terrorists by now. We could’ve sent in “peace” activists to unleash “peace” on them instead of our brave soldiers. Peaceful threats, peaceful protests and peaceful, and simultaneous, coordinated bombings of their residences. Maybe that’s what John Kerry was referring to when he called for a more sensitive war.
UPDATE: Condoleeza Rice has just declared that “the United States wants an “urgent and enduring” peace” in the Hezbollah conflict. Maybe she’s had a moment of clarity like me!
