I believe the reason for the military is to be able to defend against aggressors.  The word 'peace' can be interpreted multiple ways — it can mean total control of all dissidence (i.e. tyranny) or an absence of war.  War is bad, but is certainly rightful for the defender of liberty, and tyrannical when on the side of the aggressor.

A weak defense is an invitation to powerful aggressors.  That goes for individuals in defense of their rights as well as nations in defense of their country.  With no ability to defend against a powerful state, servitude is guaranteed.

It's true for whoever is provoking war, whether Russia, NATO, Ukraine, Israel, Hamas, US, etc..  Biden's scandals and domestic policy failures aren't even on page 2 of the news... how convenient.

The weapons manufacturers care not who buys their arms — they supply both sides of a conflict.

Yes, Mike!

Have you read the Iraqi Constitution?  It's a bastardization of the US Constitution, without We the People.  It's what the statists wish the US Constitution said, granting all power to the government disguised as protection for the people. 

Jefferson did not support the proposed US Constitution without a Bill of Rights declaring what the government could NOT do.  The same goes for every country that is governed by a Constitution — without a Bill of Rights that cannot be overwritten, servitude is inevitable eventually.

Yes, a reflex like your predictable response to every quote on this blog. ;-)  Are you incapable of independent thought?  The progressive liberals really did a number on you, eh?  I pity the children that attended your schools...

Good lord, Fred, you must be trolling now...  I suppose you would take away every power available to the common man for independence.  Talk about mentally ill...

Yep — just look at England today.  Since taking guns away from the people resulted in the use of knives and machetes by criminals, now kitchen knives are regulated, too.  There will be no end to the control the government will claim over the citizens to make sure they remain defenseless in every way and dependent upon the state.  Slaves are not permitted access to weapons — you know why...

Fred, in Nature, every animal has need for defenses against predators, no less for humans.  We must be able to defend ourselves with the same powers that are aimed at us by human predators which enslave and destroy.  We the People must not be the aggressors but we must be the defenders against aggression.  This is the way.

It matters not what form of government a nation may take, if their currency is fiat and controlled by an elite (plutocracy?) they will forever be enslaved by that system.

Mike, you know Fred falls for such rhetoric every time it is prettied up to distract from the unvarnished truth Rhodes is speaking.  8 billion minds don't need to be 'put together,' they need only be allowed to think for themselves and allow others to do the same.  8 billion can take care of themselves without finding a leader to speak for them as one mind — blecch!

Don't be such a dupe, Fred.  Your last thumbs down comment on colonization by Cecil Rhodes is the same thing Augustus Thomas is saying.  You socialists fall for it every time!  Utopian dreams have ALWAYS led to the centralization of power and servitude to the state for the 'common good.'  Wake up, man...

Never trust a Rhodes Scholar — they have been hand-picked by the globalist establishment to fulfil Cecil Rhodes' dream of totalitarianism and the subservience of all to a fascist world government. 

Rhodes was a proud slaver, and Africa is still scarred from his exploits. Northern and Southern Rhodesia (named after Cecil Rhodes) and neighboring nations suffered greatly under the British South Africa Company which was modeled on that of the British East India Company and other Crown Corporations that came before them laying claim to the vast resources of land around the world. 

The playbook has hardly changed even hundreds of years later. They literally 'own' the world and the citizens pay taxes (i.e. tribute) on their land and labor forever.

Check out a list of notable Rhodes Scholars throughout history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Rhodes_Scholars

Hundreds of college and university presidents, chancellors, deans, and professors, all shaping history and the laws to fit the narrative of what has been termed the New World Order.

Yes, sir.  And tyranny is promoting what everyone must see and must think through lies, threats, misdirection, fear-mongering, and censorship of actual discoveries — for the common good, of course...

The quote taken on its on without consideration of ad hominem arguments has merit.  That being said, Mandela and his party were communistic in every regard and did not embody this sentiment in the least... hypocritical at best.

Indeed.  Whatever happened to the anti-war movement?  All the old hippies are progressive liberals now calling for the support of Ukrainian Nazis bombing citizens of Russian descent — who they used to support!  Weak minds and fickle hearts are the bulwark of the neo-cons marching lockstep towards WWIII.  Peace, man!

Hear, hear!  Destiny awaits...

I suppose the quote's context might reveal the apparent paradox in Arendt's definition of love and hate, both being destructive — but they are destructive of opposite things.

To paraphrase, "A free people as a whole cannot afford hatred or love" because a house divided against itself cannot stand, and we cannot all share the same loves or hatreds or preferences or desires.  To love everything (or hate everything) or tolerate everything would ultimately result in the destruction of what is the public good.  Love the sinner but hate the sin would be reduced to love the sinner and the sins, leading to a people of self-delusion.

To stand with the ones you love and against that which threatens them is to take a side.  Their is no honor in total surrender to evil.  Sometimes you have to fight, whether fueled by love or hatred.

The 'Forgotten Man' indeed.  I'm surprised Sillick didn't chime in on this one as he is a classic A&B man...

Hence the war on 'identity' being waged in liberal society.  People that don't know who they are can be easily manipulated.

"Know thyself."

All problems are solved by first taking responsibility for them, not blaming others or complaining "when are 'they' going to do something."

Utopians substitute their own dogma and call it 'reasonable.'

An inconvenient truth that progressive 'liberals' refuse to acknowledge...

Thanks, Mike!  You've nailed it, once again.

Lest we forget, historically schools were established by churches. Harvard and Yale were founded as seminaries.  We have come a LONG way, baby, eh?  Secular, progressive liberalism is a poisonous lie.  I for one have had my fill of it — blecch!