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“A tacit assumption has taken hold (in the American Zietgeist) – war must go on, one way or another.
Sunday, May 29, 2011 18:35
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In times of war, U.S. presidents have often talked about yearning for peace. But the last decade has brought a gradual shift in the rhetorical zeitgeist while a tacit assumption has taken hold — war must go on, one way or another.
"I am continuing and I am increasing the search for every possible path to peace,” Lyndon Johnson said while escalating the Vietnam War. In early 1991, the first President Bush offered the public this convolution: “Even as planes of the multinational forces attack Iraq, I prefer to think of peace, not war.”
More than a decade later, George W. Bush told a joint session of Congress: “We seek peace. We strive for peace.”
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