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There is no peace as long as authoritarian regimes threaten democratic nations and their own peoples.
by valuearb 6y ago
There is no peace as long as authoritarian regimes threaten democratic nations and their own peoples.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoYes and no. Yes, there is not real peace, and there is not peace even within such nations. That difference (between authoritarian and non-authoritarian) matters. But no, even with authoritarian regimes in existence, there is a difference between "shooting war" and "no shooting war". That difference matters, too.
- vkou 6y agoA bad peace is better than a good war. As anyone who's ever had a war fought on their soil will tell you. When was the last time a war has been fought on your country's soil? How many times since then has your country brought war to another's? Your opinion might change were you on the receiving end of these adventures.
- valuearb 6y agoYou mean a bad peace like 1939?
- vkou 6y agoI'm thinking more like the bad peace of 1963, 1979, 2001, 2003, 2011, 2011 (again), need I go on?
- mezentius 6y agoYes, but valuearb makes a good point— it is not always true that a bad peace is better than a good war. There are moments when timely, preemptive military intervention can avoid a more destructive conflict. (The problem is, of course, that those moments are often only obvious to us in historical retrospect.)
- alextheparrot 6y ago> The key method to avoiding war is to spread democracy This statement remains unsubstantiated, and is furthermore argued against by the wars originally provided in the general context of the quote.