re: #320 Aceofwhat?

He was my congressman for a while. He’s not kidding.

Ace, you can rail on Kucinich all you want, but to me it’s a lot similar to the Pelosi-criticism. I never hear criticism of Kucinich that’s actually substantial. The Department of Peace is in no way meant to compete with the Department of Defense, and aside from the fruity name, my only objection to it is that it largely duplicates some of State’s supposed missions.

As to the contention that good diplomacy is more important than a huge army for national defense, that’s perfectly correct, especially in the modern day.