RYAN: "Peace through strength works..." (oneliner in a speech given in DePere WI today)

[bobthedrummer]

Peace through Strength is a registered trademark of the American Security Council Foundation.

American Security Council Foundation website
http://www.ascfusa.org

Wikipedia Peace through strength entry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_through_strength

What do you think peace really is, DU?

It isn't the old PNAC, Reagan, militarist goal of being the world's sole military superpower-no, not at all.

60% of our taxes currently go into defense-and, fwiw, the DoD under BUSH/CHENEY "lost" $1 trillion.

What else could peace be?

[Scootaloo]

1. They have no idea what strength is

Smashing the shit out of everything and swinging your guns around isn't strength. It's a display of fear and weakness.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. I swear, I remember that phrase from 1984

If not, lovely newspeak anyway.

[bobthedrummer]

4. Ignorance is Strength was part of Newspeak, I recoiled when this came out of the mouth of Ryan too

Check this Sourcewatch page on The Committee on the Present Danger for more peace through strength history nadinbrzezinski.

Committee on the Present Danger
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Committee_on_the_Present_Danger

Lots of conservative Dems embraced this Cold War moneymaker too.
Context of "1978 Congress's Coalition of Peace Through Strength Opposes Arms Limitation Talks With Soviets" (History Commons)
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a1978asccpts

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. And "War Is Peace" was a 1984 slogan too

The tones become even more unpleasant when you recall the Nazi "Strength Through Joy" organisation ...

[bobthedrummer]

9. Kind of like our present astroturf front organizations with such innocuous names like Crossroads GPS

Americans for Prosperity, The US Chamber of Commerce, American Legislative Exchange Council. What's in a name anyway?

Peace through strength, that always works out well for the masters/mistresses of war, so well that it is a registered trademark...

Below is a handy synopsis of what you referenced, muriel_volestrangler, for those DUers that like to learn. The Germans never got that Volkswagen in every garage as promised, did they?

Strength Through Joy (History Learning Site UK entry)
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/strength_through_joy.htm

What is peace?

[Angry Dragon]

3. Hey Lyan' Ryan, facts are important to make good decisions

Where are your facts??

[Ellipsis]

5. more like

[bobthedrummer]

6. Hey RYAN-these Veterans understand you are a LIAR worse than Rmoney

Veterans for Peace
http://www.veteransforpeace.org

[GeorgeGist]

7. Don't forget that our Department of Defense was inadequate to the task of defending US ...

so we created a Department of Homeland Security.

We've all seen the lucrative clusterfuck that has produced.

[Octafish]

10. So. Why are we at war all the time?

Hey, Ayn Ryan! It was a rhetorical question:

MONEY TRUMPS PEACE.

And to think I keep hoping things will change.

[bobthedrummer]

12. I believe it's like what my Governor with a criminal defense fund stated to his handlers-divide and

conquer. Eliminate ALL opposition of tptb. It's hard work, war, so let the mercenaries and robots do it. As for our troops, veterans and military families that have been broken or those that questioned criminal orders-tptb hire some replacements for those "whiners" and "losers". Human history is war imho.

Peace to you and your house from mine, Sir!

[Initech]

11. Yeah I'll believe that from the "money trumps peace" party.

[bobthedrummer]

13. Donald Trump's Party n/t