FREE PEACE LESSONS!

thinking peace has a great post today by Michael Sky called Teaching Peace (no permalink yet). The site references content from the UN Peace Education site (that apparently runs on a battery operated 286 server trying to multitask Pi to infinity). Michael sums it up in just a few pertinent words - no batteries required.

... before we attack we must disconnect. Before we intentionally harm Others, we first pronounce them as separate, alien, different, and less than.

The whole article is a compelling read. The UN site seems worth a visit but it's like pulling teeth getting that machine to respond. It seems to me that PEACE ought to be the priority and getting to peace education should be mandatory at this point in history.

I'm very confused about how the Iraq "Study" Group (who look like many of the same faces in Vietnam, and Iran-Contra) is considered authoritative. It is all of our duties to make peace happen. Leaving it up to those guys hasn't gotten us anywhere.

Force shites upon Reason's Back. - Benjamin Franklin, 1736