Of course, everybody says they're for peace. Hitler was for peace. Everybody is for peace. The question is: What kind of peace?

It may be beyond the limits of human intelligence to understand how human intelligence works.

Nicaragua was destabilizing Central America, meaning moving in a direction the US didn't like. So Nicaragua was crushed.

The invasion of Panama, what was that? The U.S. killed, according to the Panamanians, 3,000 civilians. Maybe they're right. We don't investigate our own crimes, so nobody knows.

I do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to.

I think a decent society should protect rights to private property within limits, but not concentrations of private power that infringe on the freedom and rights of others, including exploitation of labor, and that convert any democratic forms into what have been called sometimes "hierarchical democracies," like ours, in which some have vastly greater influence over public policy than others. Spelling all of this out is a complex matter that raises many issue and problems that are impossible to address here.

Citizenship means every four years you put a mark somewhere and you go home and let other guys run the world. It's a very destructive ideology.