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In my time here I have seen a century of warfare within the new world, undeterred by successes or failures, unimpaired by bloodshed and ruin. Through this all, no winner has taken the throne, no benefits won by any side

I have, therefore, chosen this time and this place to discuss a topic on which ignorance too often abounds and the truth is too rarely perceived--yet it is the most important topic in the eWorld: world peace.

What kind of peace do I mean? What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children--not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women--not merely peace in our time but peace for all time.

I speak of peace because of the new face of war. Total war makes no sense in an age when great powers can maintain large and relatively invulnerable goldbeast forces and refuse to surrender without resort to those forces. It makes no sense in an age when a single goldbeast controls enough force to turn a war.

Today the expenditure of thousands of USD and gold every week on weapons acquired for the purpose of making sure we never need to use them is essential to keeping the peace. But surely the acquisition of such idle stockpiles--which can only destroy and never create--is not the only, much less the most efficient, means of assuring peace.

I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize that the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war--and frequently the words of the pursuer fall on deaf ears. But we have no more urgent task.

Some say that it is useless to speak of world peace or world law or world disarmament--and that it will be useless until the leaders of the NWO adopt a more enlightened attitude. I hope they do. I believe we can help them do it. But I also believe that we must reexamine our own attitude--as individuals and as a Nation--for our attitude is as essential as theirs. And every graduate of this school, every thoughtful citizen who despairs of war and wishes to bring peace, should begin by looking inward--by examining his own attitude toward the possibilities of peace, toward the NWO, toward the course of the cold war and toward freedom and peace here at home.

Let us examine our attitude toward peace itself. Too many of us think it is impossible. Too many think it unreal. But that is a dangerous, defeatist belief. It leads to the conclusion that war is inevitable--that mankind is doomed--that we are gripped by forces we cannot control. We need not accept that view. Our problems are manmade--therefore, they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. Man's reason and spirit have often solved the seemingly unsolvable--and we believe they can do it again.

I am not referring to the absolute, infinite concept of peace and good will of which some fantasies and fanatics dream. I do not deny the value of hopes and dreams but we merely invite discouragement and incredulity by making that our only and immediate goal.

We must persevere in the search for peace in the hope that constructive changes within the NWO bloc might bring within reach solutions which now seem beyond us. We must conduct our affairs in such a way that it becomes in the NWO interest to agree on a genuine peace. Above all, while defending our own vital interests, our military must avert those confrontations which bring an adversary to a choice of either a humiliating retreat or a goldbeasting war. To adopt that kind of course in the goldbeasting age would be evidence only of the bankruptcy of our policy--or of a collective death-wish for the world.

My fellow Americans, let us examine our attitude toward peace and freedom here at home. This generation of Americans has already had enough--more than enough--of war and hate and oppression. We must do our part to build a world of peace where the weak are safe and the strong are just. We are not helpless before that task or hopeless of its success. Confident and unafraid, we labor on--not toward a strategy of annihilation but toward a strategy of peace.