"Waging peace is a much better strategy for avoiding the costs of maiming wars and winning economic battles. If only our leaders had been wise enough to understand just three rules of the Chinese warrior Sun Tzu:
1. All war is based on deception.
2. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemy without fighting a battle.
3. He wins who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
"Sun Tzu explains why sending 21 million Americans over the next 27 years under the umbrella of the America's World Service Corps (AWSC) Congressional Proposal is essential to America playing a long-term positive role in the world. The president knows and believes in the importance of such robust national service . Let us push him now by offering legislation related to the AWSC and some of the platoons that it sends volunteers to--Peace Corps, TechnoServe, Oxfam, American Friends Service, Heifer, FINCA, etc. Let them, rather than our military corps, get involved all over the world, so that our military only rarely has to fire its deadly guns.
"I close my talk not just pushing the AWSC but to make an ancillary suggestion for the President and Congress' consideration.
"As President Obama shuffles the card deck filled with dangerous jokers, while sitting at a table with Hamas, a brutal dictator, and a chest-thumping Russian leader, he has played a difficult hand well. Why not now throw a trump card, win the table, and leave the chips for all the players to happily pick up?
"Call on Prime Minister Putin to join with you and build a joint American Russian Peace Corps, or call it a Russian American Peace Corps, if it makes him ride taller in the saddle.
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