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Humans love labels. These days, anyone on the right is being called a fascist or a Nazi and those on the left are being labeled weak appeasers. The divide between left and right has been very vocal of late.

The hatred for the president has reached such a fever-pitch that it's easy to conjure a mental picture of naked leftists dancing around a raging fire at midnight under a blood-red full moon, chanting to whatever god or gods they believe in as they implore, "Impeach Bush! Impeach Bush! Impeach Bush!" One can only hope there is no human sacrifice involved, but if the leftists thought it would help, they might consider it.

All of the accusations of "Bush lied," and "Bush is turning America into a fascist state," have forced some serious thought about the inherent differences between those of us on the "right" and those of us on the "left."

Throughout history there have been those who wanted to believe that all people can be reasoned with, given the time and effort. Those people who tried that tactic with Genghis Khan probably had little success and short lives, but still those people with pacifist tendencies have persisted. Apparently, the few who survived the tragic aftermath of their extended peace efforts managed to pass on to their children the slogan, "Give peace a chance."

Now giving peace a chance is a noble endeavor but at some point that endeavor turns into nothing more than an opportunity for evil people to grow into uncontrollable monsters. After the leftists have failed in their attempt to reason with the unreasonable, they grudgingly turn to those of us on the right to put the evil genie back in the bottle because that is all one can do with evil. Then, evil bides its time until it can be unleashed on the world again and the cycle begins anew.

These thoughts from an avowed liberal shed some light on the inner-workings of the pacifist mind: "And finally, you {people on the right} just don't think peace can exist. You say you live in reality, but you accept the evils of the world all too easily. You become part of that evil, because you see no other way. You see, we who live in "the fantasy world of the left" recognize the universal fact that peace can exist, maybe not now, but at some point, and the first step is for each and every one of us to stop creating wars and fire up unnecessary conflicts."

Throughout recorded history there has been no time when man was at peace with himself. Wars and human conquest have raged across the known world ever since man could draw pictures on the walls of caves. In North America the Indian tribes waged war against each other. The African continent has been at war with itself for centuries. There have been religious wars, wars fought over a woman, wars fought over land and sea rights, wars fought over water, and wars fought just because there was nothing else to do. It seems fighting is in our nature. Fighting is a part of the human animal. It has been necessary to survive.

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