Real Peace
“Yet 20 years later world war again engulfed the globe, leaving unprecedented destruction in its wake and killing almost four times as many people. When World War II ended the nuclear age began, and the potential destruction of war increased exponentially. Today it is no longer an exaggeration to say that the next war would be “the war to end war” because it would also end civilization as we know it.
We must not court confrontation or flirt with war, but neither should we let ourselves be seduce...d by the idea of peace at any price. Mao Zedong elliptically expressed concern about this danger in my last meeting with him in 1976. He asked me, “Is peace your only goal?” I replied that our goal was peace, but a peace that was more than the absence of war. I told him, “It must be a peace with justice.” If I had answered Mao’s question with a discourse that emphasized only the need for peace and friendship, he would have considered me to be not only wrong but also a fool. After all, if peace really is our only goal, we can have it any time we wish simply by surrendering.MoreLess
We must not court confrontation or flirt with war, but neither should we let ourselves be seduce...d by the idea of peace at any price. Mao Zedong elliptically expressed concern about this danger in my last meeting with him in 1976. He asked me, “Is peace your only goal?” I replied that our goal was peace, but a peace that was more than the absence of war. I told him, “It must be a peace with justice.” If I had answered Mao’s question with a discourse that emphasized only the need for peace and friendship, he would have considered me to be not only wrong but also a fool. After all, if peace really is our only goal, we can have it any time we wish simply by surrendering.MoreLess
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