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PEACE ALERT. The progressive blogosphere tends to greet talk of Dennis Kucinich's proposed "Department of Peace" with a sort of raised-eyebrow smile-and-nod. You know, how sweet. Can we please return to the scheduled programming? So imagine my surprise to learn in the pages of City Journal, best known as the champion of Giuliani-era reform in New York City, that Kucinich is actually "waging an aggressive, under-the-media-radar campaign for a cabinet-level Peace Department in the United States."
House Resolution 808 would authorize a Secretary of Peace to “establish a Peace Academy,” “develop a peace education curriculum” for elementary and secondary schools, and provide “grants for peace studies departments” at campuses around the country. If passed, the measure would catapult the peace studies movement into a position of extraordinary national, even international, influence.Apparently, it's all part of the highly profitable "peace racket," a movement that lures young people away from wholesome endeavors like i-banking and corporate law and imbues them with a deep and un-American hatred of war and violence. The horror!--Dana Goldstein
