BE -- "death wish for the planet"

[Jochen Stremmel]

2016-02-27 8:32 GMT+01:00 Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>:

> Nice combination, indeed!
>
> And in the light of Kennedy's speeches, did you read the Pilger piece
> Christopher provided?
>
> "But history goes on, as you always like to remind us."
>
> 2016-02-27 8:02 GMT+01:00 Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>:
>
>> 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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