Waging Peace: The Art of War for the Antiwar Movement by Scott Ritter

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Waging Peace: The Art of War for the Antiwar Movement by Scott Ritter
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Salty
Salty
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sillyness
mush from mush. - Salty , posted 08/13/07
common
common
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its a war to steal iraqi oil
drive alone to support both bush and bin laden - common , posted 07/13/07
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spam and more spam rammed down our throats...
I am sick of seeing this spam ad in EVERY YES EVERY TRIBE there is....... the art of spam and the anti spam movement ....... - , posted 07/13/07
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Irony's Prophet
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imperialism "lite" with no trans-fats
So the author writes a book for us being a more ethical world cop

Criticises the poor job of public relations of the current administration

And thinks a gun in one hand and a soft sell in the other is going to wage peace?

If people want peace, it is simple, every nation MIND THEIR OWN BUISINESS, let America as the most powerful country in the world set an example. - Irony's Prophet , posted 06/24/07
ghôti
ghôti
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boo hiss
.Peace is war! - ghôti , posted 06/24/07
Sonya
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No Thanks to Patriarchal Peace
Pub Weekly gave it a poor review, and I agree. While some of Ritter's points about organization may be useful, determining to create a top down, military style organization doesn't make the society I wish to live in. Peacemkaing may be slower when we're looking at dismantling patriarchal structures, but it tends to create lasting changes.

From Publishers Weekly
Former U.N. weapons inspector Ritter (War on Iraq) is that rarity, a peacenik who's also a gung-ho ex-Marine besotted with the leatherneck's romanticized warrior ethos. In this eccentric manifesto, he critiques the antiwar movement in the light of military-philosophical chestnuts gleaned from Sun-Tzu, Marine Corps maneuver warfare principles and aerial combat guru John Boyd's OODA-loop theory. His mission, couched in a repetitious blend of stolid Pentagonese and bloody-minded exhortation, is to militarize the peace movement's organization (A Type I Personnel Support Unit would be able to mobilize with a week's notice to deploy... for up to 7 days within a 500 mile radius) and attitude (Dominate and destroy your enemy). Unfortunately, Ritter's practical proposals are cumbersome and ill-considered, his political instincts hackneyed (proposed antiwar battle cry: reverence for the Constitution) and his intellectual conceits—which encompass everything from Newtonian physics to the centrality of conflict in life and shopping—unenlightening. The relevance of, say, dog-fighting doctrine to political organizing remains murky, except as a vague model of abstract virtues of speed, improvisation and initiative. Ritter raises cogent points about the peace movement's failure to think strategically, hone a compelling message and build bridges to mainstream America, but then obscures these issues in a fog of garbled war metaphors. (June)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. - Sonya , posted 06/24/07
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vidourle
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Waging Peace 101
1. Pursuing peace is fundamental to US and international law.

Currently our security, prosperity and liberty as a people are being actively undermined by a pro-war faction that violates US and international law with total impunity.

2. "Waging Peace" is the first book to offer a frank assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the current US peace movement.

It's also the first book to offer concrete, practical, and realistic measures to exponentially increase the US peace movement's effectiveness.

3. The author of "Waging Peace", Scott Ritter - a former US Marine officer and UN weapons inspector - has not only shown his practical understanding of what's required to organize action effectively, he has also repeatedly demonstrated his own personal courage and integrity in the service of peace and the nation.

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www.exquisitesafaris.com/index...ravel/ - vidourle , posted 06/23/07

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