The following are the writings of John Edwards White, Sr.

Fundamental Risk to Peace is Not the Existence of Weapons
By JOHN EDWARDS WHITE, SR..
January 25, 2003

To the people of the United Kingdom! When he had become so powerful, he also became proud, which led to his downfall. 2Chronicles 26:16.

Please hear me, one who is but a rain drop in the midst of a growing storm. The majority of the citizens of the United States of America do not want to invade and usurp Iraq!  But believe that our Governments obstinate position is precipitous and presumptuous. And is an incongruous paradox to the pervasive consensus of not to invade Iraq without the United Nations heading the mandate!

Therefore, we the majority of the citizens of the United State of America, beseech you. The people of the United Kingdom to help us circumvent the bellicose strategies of those whom want to arrogate Iraq! Join us by putting an end to their impudence!

We ask you to convince your contumacious Prime Minister to hear the surmounting cumulative opinion of the world; That this belligerence and intransigence is not acceptable. To understand that if God blesses the peacemaker, then he must curse the war monger!

And to learn from the words of your former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. "The fundamental risk to peace is not the existence of weapons of particular types...The springs of war lie in the readiness to resort to force against other nations, and not in 'arms races,' whether real or imaginary. Aggressors do not start wars because an adversary has built up his own strength. They start wars because they believe they can gain more by going to war than by remaining at peace" (Speech at UN Special Disarmament Session, June 1982!

Domine Dirigenos-(Latin) Lord direct us-Motto of the city of London!

History Says Tell The Emperor He Has No Clothes
By JOHN EDWARDS WHITE, SR..
January 26, 2003

George Santayana said, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." A wise remark. A look at history could be a remedy for the acute perplexities that we find ourselves in today!

In retrospect, Napoleon learned his lesson at Waterloo. Hitler met his condemnation when he didn't listen to his Generals and attacked the Russians on the East. And the United States should have learned, from their experience in the Philippines at the Bataan Peninsula during World War II! And those lessons are to never believe yourself to be so powerful that you underestimate your enemy: never put your people in a position where that can't adequately defend themselves and never be over extended from your resources and there commitment thereof!

After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December, 7th 1941, they invaded the Philippines on December 8th , attacked the large Island of Luzon and striking nearly every American installation there! Driving the Americans and there Filipino allies to a tiny peninsula called Bataan and an island called Corregidor. American and Filipino troops fought valiantly as their food and ammunition ran out. When defeat became certain the United States evacuated General Douglas MacArthur to Australia to build a new army!

His ill-equipped, malnourished, malarial troops held the peninsula as long as they could. On April 9.1942, they capitulated to the Japanese 14th Army. It was the largest surrender in American history!

Finally the Japanese force-marched these prisoners 65 miles north to a temporary enclosure called Camp O'Donnell. The prisoners were in no condition to walk, but the Japanese prodded them along anyway; if a man couldn't keep pace, he was shot, bayoneted, or beheaded. In the end, more than 600 Americans and as many as 10,000 Filipinos are believed to have died during this week long atrocity that came to be known as the Bataan Death March.

Yet the Death March was only the beginning of their long ordeal. In the prison camps these men endured three years of some of the most horrendous treatment known in History! It is estimated that as many as 10,000 Americans Died!

Now the Situation in Korea is so parallel to that of our past experience in the Philippines, that we cannot ignore the correlation and should view the situation with a tincture of trepidation!

We have 37,000 troops in South Korea Facing over one million North Koreans and that's not counting the latent enemies that would spring up from both Koreas once the battle started! If the United States marginalizes or castigates North Korea in any way, it could trigger a putsch into South Korea that in its vanguard would probably overwhelm the forces in the South!

Bush should not over estimate American might nor over extend our forces. As history has taught, all are subject to their fall due to blind ambition or unforeseen perils. As we begin another era of military conflict, we once again find ourselves between a rock an a proverbial hard place. Is it that War, expansiveness and convenience is such an intrinsic part of the American mindset? Is it so hard to look at the emperor and tell him he is naked! It's time for him to rethink his strategies!