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The Prostitution of Peace


Posted: 27 May 2009 07:31 PM PDT






If you believe the current regime of diplomats and pundits, peace
is something that can be obtained for the right price. Where peace
once meant the mutual cessation of war, peace has now become
something that can now be bought and sold. Put the right amount
on the table and peace can be yours, the pimps of peace cry on every
corner. Behind them stand their gruesome wares, the terrorists and
mass murderers who will have peace with you, perhaps for a
night or two, if the right price is paid. The tricks may think that peace
is a long term marriage, but they know it is only a one night stand.
Hudna. Ceasefire. Time enough for them to rearm and kill again.

We live now in the era of the prostitution of peace. Love doesn't enter
into it. Brotherhood doesn't enter into it. We no longer have peace because
we are both tired of war and wish an end to it. No, peace has become
something that the brute, the thug and the monster offers to the civilized
world in exchange for weapons, power and international stature. And so
we no longer have peace, instead the very idea of peace has become a lost
hope, a compulsive gambler's winning streak, an alky's last beer, a forlorn
cause in the darkened streets of civilization's modern diplomatic dystopia.

Peace once used to be an end to violence, but now peace has become a
process, a long ritual of meetings and paper shufflings that never
actually produces peace, but keeps the creaky wheels of diplomacy
turning. And so the men in suits come and go and photographs are taken
and signed and newspaper headlines cry, "Peace, peace," but there is no
peace. The diplomats who prostitute peace from Oslo to Camp David,
from Taba to Ankara, know full that what they are selling is a disease
ridden lie. What they are truly selling is the illusion of a rational world
to the last remnants of a dying civilization confronting the savagery
of a Dar Al Harb that laughs at reason and glories in savagery.
.The rain falls in the dark, the wind blows ragged newspapers down a
deserted street. Munich. Camp David. Brussels. Oslo. It doesn't matter
anymore, only the hotel rooms and the expensive booze at taxpayer
expense poured into wineglasses. The pimps pander, the prostitutes pose
with their weapons and bombs and the tricks put up everything they
have certain that this time it will be different. A toast is made. "To peace!"
Peace in our time. Peace in no one's time.

The prostitution of peace is a lurid cynical act, far more gruesome than
the sort of crimes men and women are arrested for on civilization's
streetcorners every night. For the prostitution of peace is not merely the
false promise of love, it is the false promise of an end to the killing, only to
enable and perpetuate it.

Leftist agitation and activism has turned peace into a meme, a lie everyone
can have if they only sing loudly enough and demand it from their
government.

And so they die. And the leaders of their government go to the hotel rooms
in distant cities and continents and buy it for them. The glasses clink,
everyone cheers and in the morning there are more corpses to be swept
from the streets.

The insincerity of peace is at the heart of the prostitution of peace. It is an act
of irresponsibility on every side. The pimps of peace in the foreign ministries
and state departments inflate their own prestige certain that the right transaction
will finally win over the sheiks of the east. The prostitutes of peace grin cynically,
knowing that they are not selling anything that they cannot take back tomorrow.
The tricks come with a mix of corruption and despair driven by the
self-destructive impulse of decay to buy something they cannot have at a price
they cannot pay.

No one in this trinity of the damned wishes to hear about the moral bankruptcy
of their profession or its devastating price. Again and again the price is paid
and blood runs in the gutter and in the hotel rooms the glasses clink.

"To peace."













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