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Thursday, March 13, 2003
      ( 4:17 PM )
 
An Interesting Take on the Whole Thing
My aunt sent me this today. I'm glad somebody's glass is half full....

"Dr. Robert Muller, former assistant secretary general of the United Nations,
now Chancellor emeritus of the University of Peace in Costa Rica was one of
the people who witnessed the founding of the U.N. and has worked in support
of or inside the U.N. ever since. Recently he was in San Francisco to be
honored for his service to the world through the U.N. and through his
writings and teachings for peace. Some of his comments:

"Never before in the history of the world has
there been a global, visible, public, viable, open dialogue and conversation
about the very legitimacy of war.

"The whole world is in now having this critical and historic
dialogue--listening to all kinds of points of view and positions about going
to war or not going to war. In a huge global public conversation the world
is asking -- Is war legitimate? Is it illegitimate? Is there enough
evidence to warrant an attack? Is there not enough evidence to warrant an
attack?

All of this, he noted, is taking place in the context of the United Nations
Security Council, the body that was established in 1949 for exactly this
purpose. He pointed out that it has taken us more than fifty years to
realize that function.

"We are not at war," he kept saying. "We, the world community, are
waging peace. It is difficult, hard work. It is constant and we must not let
up. It is working and it is an historic milestone of immense proportions.
It has never happened before -- never in human history -- and it is
happening now, every day, every hour, waging peace through a global
conversation."

Somebody, give the old fella a drink. His glass needs filling.

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