Nathan Deal Talks About "War and Peace"

One of the advantages (or disadvantages as the case may be) of studying history is that you learn there are major turning points ... watershed points they are sometimes called ... turning points in personal lives and turning points in nations and turning points that affect the entire world. As many historians have noted, it is very difficult to see that major change when it is happening, and because we tend to resist change, it is difficult for many to accept. But the change takes place, usually because some unexpected leader steps forward and makes it happen. A lot of pretty good thinkers think this kind of world change is taking place right now, and has been accelerated by 9-11.

The reason all this comes to mind is because our Congressman, Nathan Deal, gave a talk in Gainesville the other day entitled "War and Peace." He was speaking to the 10th District Republican convention, but this was not your traditional political speech. It was a thoughtful, almost scholarly, dissertation on the way nations are going to deal with one another in the Post 9-11 world, and the role the United States will play in a world in which national boundaries are blurred ... and in a world in which weapons of mass destruction do not give a nation the option of waiting until they are attacked before responding.

Congressman Deal, it seems to me, defined this historic turning point we are going through very well as he talked about the future of war in this new world, and what America can do to maintain peace. Let me suggest you get a copy of that talk, the entire thing, and read it.

This is Gordon Sawyer, and may the wind always be at your back.