|
Veterans For Peace Sends Joint Letter Calling for
Peace Negotiations Now
By Veterans
For Peace
September
23, 2017 "Information
Clearing House"
-
Dear President Trump and Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un,
You have both made your point.The
world has seen that neither of you will back down
before the threats of the other. For the sake of
the world’s people, it is now time for good faith
negotiations.
President Trump, you have engaged in
reckless rhetoric and
threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea with
“fire and fury like world has never seen.” We can
tell you right now that you do not speak for
millions of veterans in this country. We know
firsthand the horrors of war, and we don’t want to
see them again, not even from a distance.
Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un, your
threats to target Guam
and the United States with nuclear weapons are
deeply disturbing. We understand that you must
defend your nation from threats of U.S.
intervention. However, your words and actions, like
President Trump’s, are causing a very unstable and
dangerous situation.
You both
have shown the other, and the world, that you have
the capability of causing calamitous destruction in
a distant country. You have also shown that through
the strategy of “deterrence,” which holds millions
of people hostage to the threat of nuclear war, you
have so far been able to fend off an attack by the
other.
|
No
Advertising
- No
Government
Grants
-
This
Is
Independent
Media
|
The point
has been made. Now is the time to start backing
off.
It is time for each side to clearly
state its conditions for negotiations.
Not conditions that are deliberately designed to be
impossible for the other side to accept. But
conditions that are “negotiable.” There should be
no unilateral “pre-conditions” for talks to begin.
The people of the world are demanding peace.
The name-calling and bluffing game
must stop, before
someone, somewhere, makes a tragic mistake, a
mistake that could never be undone. Millions of
people would die a horrible death, not only in
Korea, the U.S. and Japan, but also in Okinawa,
Guam, China, Russia - and who knows where else.
Millions of lives are in the balance,
as is the future of the human species. For
the sake of our mutual survival, it is time for
diplomacy. It is time to negotiate. It is time for
peace. As veterans of too many wars, we beg you to
start talking now.
Please let
us know if we might be of assistance. We will help
in any way we can.
Peace for All Koreans! Peace for All the People of
the World!
Most
sincerely,
Veterans For Peace
This
article was first published by
Veterans For Peace
-
|
