All They Are Saying Is: Give Peace a Chance

Brittany Baldwin / May 23, 2011

When Miss Congeniality admitted that she really did want world peace, little did she know that the government would have an answer. A recently introduced bill would establish a Department of Peace to “reduce and prevent violence in the United States and internationally through peacebuilding and effective nonviolent conflict resolution.”

Representative Kucinich (D-OH) and his fellow sponsors hope to promote peace in the United States by developing new policies to prevent animal abuse, gang violence, and domestic abuse. This bill will also promote international peace by establishing a Peace Academy to function as a coequal institution with the military academies, which will train students to mediate between the United States and other countries and to ensure that conflict is avoided whenever possible.

All Americans, of course, want to live in peace, but a Department of Peace won’t deliver that: the bill’s goal is so lofty that it actually compromises national security and oversteps the prudential limits of the federal government. (more…)