The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America's consent, the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The profound wisdom of this has underpinned the stability of international relations for decades.
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America hates war. America hopes for peace. Therefore, America actively engages in the search for peace.
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We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and justice throughout the developing world, a world that borders on our doors.
Freedom is not only the absence of being in jail, just as it is always said that peace is not merely the absence of war.
This would be a declared total war, not upon any human enemy but upon the brute forces of poverty and need. The peace we seek, founded upon decent trust and cooperative effort among nations, can be fortified, not by weapons of war but by wheat and by cotton, by milk and by wool, by meat and timber and rice.
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