{"id":20135,"date":"2010-08-16T02:24:11","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T06:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20135"},"modified":"2011-03-19T14:24:25","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T18:24:25","slug":"a-department-of-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20135","title":{"rendered":"A Department of Peace?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This all started a few days ago on Facebook. I posted in reply to this video about General Petraeus<\/a>. It got started with this comment.<\/p>\n

“The general wants more war. Gee whiz.” …which underlines the need for civilian CONTROL of the military, not handing control over to those who want more war, the way the previous, corrupt, criminal mis-administration did (and this administration is doing now)!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Civilian control? You mean like it is now with the President in charge? What more were you really expecting? In which I got my answer. <\/p>\n

…When there is a Secretary of Peace advising the President at NSA briefings, I would think the civilian control is adequate to balance a Department that funnels billions of dollars to the war industry, which funnels enough of it to Congress to keep it in the war business. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You mean the department of the Federal Government and Congress? The ones that approve all of the military’s budget? Also before you just view this as a joke there have been several attempts for a bill<\/a> that would create such a position. It has been submitted in 2005<\/a>, 2007<\/a> and 2009<\/a>. All as of this posting date have not gotten past Committee. The sponsor of the bill, Rep. Dennis Kucinich<\/a> has not made any noticeable changes to the bill each time he has submitted it. <\/p>\n

Here is the full Bill<\/a>, and from what I have read so far most of it if not all is based on the assumption that this will be enforceable outside of conventional methods. But that is not stopping people from trying to raise support <\/a>for this bill once again. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This all started a few days ago on Facebook. I posted in reply to this video … A Department of Peace?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-foreign-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}