inCommunicado - eric eggertson

The headline reads "U.S.-backed peace plan fails to stop violence." Guess which decade?

   
• 1800s - The Missouri Compromise (followed by the U.S.Civil War)

   

• 1910s - Paris Peace Conference

   

• 1930s - Proposed quarantine of Japan, Italy, Germany

   

• 1940s - Yalta Conference and the Truman Doctrine

   

• 1950s - Free elections for Vietnam

   

• 1960s - Liberation of Cuba

   

• 1970s - Pushing back communism in Africa

   

• 1980s - Supporting freedom in Iraq, Latin America and Afghanistan

   

• 1990s - The Gulf War

   

• 2000s - Camp David Accord and ongoing Middle East fighting

Scroll down for answer…

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No, it’s not Vietnam.

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No, it’s not the isolation of Axis powers pre-WWII.

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Answer: Israel-Lebanon conflict,  Globe and Mail, Monday Aug. 7, 2006

I don’t profess to have an answer to the Middle East’s ongoing troubles, but American (and Canadian) backing of  Israel’s aggressive military campaign doesn’t reassure me that we will see "peace in our time."   

Obviously, there is no enduring solution for stopping all violence everywhere. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try.

At cbc.ca, Jim Reed writes about Harry Truman’s fears that Great Britain and the international community was sowing the seeds for violence in its handling of the partition of Palestine in 1948.

Tags: U.S.A., war, peace, foreign policy, middle east, history

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