Peace through Strength

The desire to achieve peace is shared by most countries in the world including America. Unfortunately there are those who prevail in breaking the peace every once in a while.

Some argue that the best way to bring peace is by doing nothing, not fighting back those who harmed you, not speaking against those who killed your people. And those pacifists always bring the example of Gandhi who refused to fight against Great Britain and avoided a war.

The example of Gandhi is nothing less than utopia in today’s world. The warriors of today fight for something beyond one’s imagination and probably even theirs, they fight for religion, they fight against Freedom, these people don’t tolerate freedom and that’s the main reason why they target America which is the first free country in the history of mankind.

During the Cold War, America elected one of its greatest presidents, Ronald Reagan. He understood that in order to bring peace and eventually end the cold war, America needed to get military stronger, and so he did by creating the Strategic Defense Initiative, also known as “Star Wars”. This program was a missile defense system that wouldn’t allow a Russian nuclear missile to hit America. By doing that, Reagan showed the Russians that they couldn’t put up with America, and the Cold War eventually ended a few years later.

Peace through strength is the best way to avoid a war and to bring peace. And that’s why a well-armed society has a better chance to maintain its freedom. During the World War II, the Japanese government thought about invading America after Pearl Harbor, but they realized that would be a hard fight to win because almost every American citizen had a gun to defend himself and his country.