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By my count, there are no less than 7 wars currently going on(Afganistan, Iraq, Columbian civil war, Darfur, Ugandan civil war, Chechnya, Sri Lanka), and those are just the ones that I can remember on a Sunday morning on my way to the airport. It also doesn't count a bunch of cold wars like China/Taiwan or India/Pakistan or North Korea/everybody.
Every single one of these is political. No exceptions. Again, war is simple politics persecuted by other means. Complete world peace is a fantastic goal and we should all work towards it (in other words, I'm not the defeatist you accuse me of being, will), but let's recognize that the ONLY solution to the problem is political. If you're going to pursue this goal, you also need to realize that violence is the failure of personal politics.
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - B. Franklin
"There ought to be limits to freedom." - George W. Bush
"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Pogo
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