Dr. Michael J. O’Connell, PainCare, New Hampshire stated that there seems to be an ever-growing contingent of Americans, possibly of world inhabitants, who believe that war and its close companion, violence, are unnecessary. It is as though because we have improved communications, more ready connections with far reaches of the world, that all differences of opinion can be settled through words and diplomacy.
This idealistic tendency that infiltrates society, particularly high brow liberal society, is inestimably noble, yet fantastically ignorant and worse, outright dangerous. One has to wonder if such people (shall I generously label them eggheads?) do not value their own lives, or are they simply giddy with the unconscionable though highly attractive notion of a world without armed conflict? It is one thing to have ‘no more war’ as a goal (who on earth would not desire that? Hmmm), but to risk the safety and freedom of all by assuming the goal is nigh met, is far from realistic to the point of suicidal.
We can truly believe that all men and women are created equal, but to deduce from that affirmation that all the world’s people share equally in our desire for considered problem solving and compromise through measured debate, is mindless and perilous drivel.
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