Ronald Dellums: “First of all, if we accept the argument by the previous speaker, then we would not be in the Sinai, we would not be in…”

“First of all, if we accept the argument by the previous speaker, then we would not be in the Sinai, we would not be in Korea. And if that is their position, step up to it and be real, step up to it and be consistent. But that argument is not a consistent argument. We are talking about keeping the peace, preventing war for tens of thousands of people not dying. That seems to me an appropriate role to play. Now, Mr. Chairman, my position in this whole thing is we ought to stay there until the job is done. As Martin Luther King said, probably more eloquent than anyone, that peace is more than simply the absence of war, it is the absence of conditions that give rise to war. So our military people may only win a marginal role in the whole issue of peace, because peace is about economics and it is about human rights and it is about democracy and a whole range of things. But sometimes people are so much adverse to each other that they need someone to come in to hold them off.”