Moonie Times: White flags on the road to 'peace'

White flags on the road to 'peace'
Wesley Pruden, editor in chief of The Times

It's easy to mock Nancy Pelosi, to dare the San Francisco Democrats to say something sensible. They're determined to resurrect the '60s, with all that noise, dirty hair, B.O., and the strategy that George McGovern employed to drive the party into exile for a generation.

The white-flag Democrats want to get America out of Iraq at any price, to give "peace" a chance. But a summer of love is particularly risky now in San Francisco, where the Age of Aquarius has morphed into the Age of AIDS.

Nevertheless, peace is nice, even in Iraq, and good citizens have a responsibility to seek peace, if not necessarily at any price at least at any place. So no mocking, no slanging. This is a time for sharing, for healing, for sensitivity.

In the spirit of the search for a nice peace -- none of that Velveeta imitation, either, but the real unprocessed McCoy -- we direct the attention of peace-lovers everywhere to the Pear Orchard in Tewkesbury, a somnolent village in peaceful Gloucestershire. There's gold in those orchards of Old Blighty.

Jill Divine of Tewkesbury is by her own admission a novelist. She writes not for capitalist profit but to promote peace, even if to do it she has to sell a few books about war (bad) and peace (good). But no guns, planes, bullets or armies for her. She prescribes a strategy with teeth. It's amazing that Mzz Pelosi and her San Francisco Democrats did not think of it themselves.

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