With the election of President-elect Barrack Obama who ran on a campaign promise to end the Iraq War, one would hope and pray that the need for any Pro-Peace demonstration would just have to wait until the next war based on lies, deception, plus government corporate, and mainstream media promotional campaigns to buy and sell the war.
However, as I watched Bill Moyers on PBS this Sunday morning, I realized from the coverage he gave on a small, little noticed, Pro-Peace March in Washington, DC. That in order to effect CHANGE, a man or women, who promises it cannot deliver it alone. There may be diverse opinions within the Pro-Peace community but fortunately there is one overriding and unifying force. Every leader, every board member of the increasingly fund raising efficient Peace movement agrees that President Obama will need all the help, encouragement, and if necessary pressure he can get to make the CHANGE he promised a reality.
In fact, when it comes to war, peace, and foreign policy, President Obama is going to need more help from the Peace movement than anything near the pressure he is already getting to do something about the U.S. economy. That is where his focus is because only less than one percent of American voters can actually relate and carry the burden to implement WAR.
Robert L. Hanafin
Major, U.S. Air Force-Retired
“In a city made noisy by hammers and saws preparing for the inauguration of a new president — a city already reverberating with partisan rancor, and with the constant chattering of the opinionated — it was hard to hear the sound of a single snare drum along Pennsylvania Avenue, between the White House and Capitol Hill, but there it was: a mere handful of men and women, 70 at most, had come out this rain-swept morning to bear witness to the dead – to the victims of war.” Moyers noted (link) video.