Peace In Our Time, Part

Peace In Our Time, Part 3 - Robert Pollock writes about something I've been thinking for most of the past decade; Bill Clinton was the Neville Chamberlain of our era.

The mantra - no, the cliche - of the era was the "peace process", as if dictators could be weaned from butchery by an international twelve-step program. "Step One: You need to recognize you're a racist totalitarian butcher...".

Pollock writes:

For Colombia's peace process was based on an idea so stupid that it could only have been the culmination of a U.S.-led decade of appeasement that saw terrorists installed in the governments of Palestine, Northern Ireland and Sierra Leone, and butchers like Saddam Hussein, Slobodan Milosevic and Kim Jong Il using negotiations as cover for the pursuit of aggressive aims.

War is bad. Sometimes an unjust peace is worse. A peace that allows dictators and terrorists to aggrandize themselves through manipulating the "process" - and allowing it to happen in the name of "process", like achieving piece is some sort of law-school project-mediation exercise - is utterly unjust. Posted by Mitch at February 28, 2002 01:52 PM