Reply #55: Then our military arm, the DoD should also fall under the SoS

[MadHound]

Sadly, it doesn't. Thus, to maintain balance, yes, we should have a Dept. of Peace. While your description of the SoS's job duties is correct, on paper, in real life, especially under this administration, the SoS has simply become the bullying branch of the DoD.

And the DoD is only sixty years old, less actually. Why not incorporate both branches, War and Peace, back under the rubric of the SoS? Or leave them seperate, and take the diplomatic function away from the SoS? I think that either move would be beneficial, if for no other reason than putting peaceful solutions on par with DoD solutions.

And if this is your only objection to Kucinich, then it is almost damning with faint praise. Frankly I think that Kucinich is the most sensible of potential candidates out there, and like I've been told time and again here, you can't get everything you want in a candidate.:shrug: