Jimmy Carter calls for Syria peace summit

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34. Finally, a voice of reason and peace

Jimmy Carter has lived through many wars. Most of our presidents have also but few have learned any lessons from them. Bush is now touted for "saving" the Iraq people; he should have resigned as LBJ did when he knew the Vietnam War saved no one and the thousands of lives lost and billions of dollars spent were in vain.

I have worked hard for Obama and will support him in every way I can. I voted for him because I agreed with most of his policies but most of all because I thought he would get us out of Iraq and Afghanistan, decrease the military, and use negotiation in foreign policy. But I cannot and will never support a decision that will take us into another war, limited or not. He puts liberal Dems and our legislators in an hard place. How can the Dems not vote for military strikes when Obama says it is a moral cause and he needs to save face? If they do vote against military intervention will it look as if they are agreeing with the crazy hawks on the right? How many of our legislators now seriously regret that they voted for Bush's stupid and unnecessary war?

For many years I've marched for peace. That does not mean I think peace is easy and certainly not wimpy. Leaders like Martin Luther King Jr and Jimmy Carter learned how hard it is but they also learned any effort will bring better results than losing precious lives and giving our precious resources to the weapons contractors. I wish Obama would listen to him.