Do We Really Need a Peace Department?

I'll bet that not many readers of this blog, nor many people nationwide, know that there is a movement afoot to create a Cabinet level "Department of Peace." I certainly did not realize that there were concrete plans for it. I only remember having heard Dennis Kucinich mutter about it in several interviews I've heard over the years. But today it's a real possibility, with real money and organization behind it. Believe it or not, there's currently a resolution in the Democratic-led House of Representatives aimed at establishing such a department.

If you're not involved in the movement, you probably have little chance of finding out about it, up until now. The plan is either intentionally or accidentally not being reported on in the media. Even if you look for it at the Library of Congress via THOMAS you can't find it under the reported resolution number, HR 808. I just found out about it when I visited the site of the political magazine City Journal. There's an article (The Peace Racket) posted on the site about this proposal and the ideology behind it, that should frighten any rational human being.
We need to make two points about this movement at the outset. First, it's opposed to every value that the West stands for-liberty, free markets, individualism-and it despises America, the supreme symbol and defender of those values. Second, we're talking not about a bunch of naive Quakers but about a movement of savvy, ambitious professionals that is already comfortably ensconced at the United Nations, in the European Union, and in many nongovernmental organizations.
Whenever dealing with movements like this (liberal or conservative), I try to connect the dots -- find out who is ultimately pulling the strings. As the anti-Vietnam War movement can be ultimately traced back to the Communists, so these new peace groups can be tracked back not to our friends, but our enemies. And why not? It's worked to our enemies' benefit in the past - might as well use the same formula again. To anyone who doubts this, I suggest they read Propaganda Redux by Ion Mihai Pacepa in the Wall Street Journal. The author helped run the Western anti-Vietnam War movement from Communist Romania before he defected. Then Google his name -- he's written quite a bit on his previous exploits, not that you'd find any of it published in the New York Times.

I get very nervous about resolutions creating new Cabinet positions, with more than 60 co-sponsors, that don't get media attention. You should as well.

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