BE -- "death wish for the planet"

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Ernie on the internet in BE:

"'As it kept growing, it never stopped carrying in his heart a 
bitter-cold death wish for the planet, and don't think anything has 
changed, kid.'"

BE, 420

John Kennedy on the search for peace:

"We must, therefore, preserve in the search for peace in the hope that 
constructive changes within the Communist bloc might bring within reach 
solutions which now seem beyond us. We must conduct our affairs in such 
a way that it becomes in the Communists' interest to agree on a genuine 
peace. Above all, while defending our vital interest, nuclear powers 
must avert those confrontations which bring an adversary to a choice of 
either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war. To adopt that kind of 
course in the nuclear age would be evidence only of the bankruptcy of 
our policy -- or of a collective death-wish for the world."

http://www1.american.edu/media/speeches/Kennedy.htm


Kennedy also said:

"In short, both the United States and its allies, and the Soviet Union 
and its allies, have a mutually deep interest in a just and genuine 
peace and in halting the arms race. Agreements to this end are in the 
interests of the Soviet Union as well as ours -- and even the most 
hostile nations can be relied upon to accept and keep those treaty 
obligations, and only those treaty obligations, which are in their own 
interest.

So, let us not be blind to our differences -- but let us also direct 
attention to our common interests and to means by which those 
differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, 
at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the 
final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this 
planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's 
future. And we are all mortal."

Quite impressive.



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