Excellence in Home Education starts here. Since 1981, God's World News has been helping children to understand and interpret the world around them. I suspect that a faction within the administration cheered the limiting of arm sales but cringed at the president's words, because some foreign policy analysts astoundingly maintain their faith in the natural goodness of leaders with homicidal tendencies. Let's acknowledge harsh facts. Beijing's dictators were willing to shoot students a decade ago.
Reports indicate that they have ordered the shooting of protesting villagers in recent weeks.
That's certainly not something I want. The faithful there, trusting in human goodness, believe that war is an unnatural act, one preventable by astute diplomacy. They believe that leaders are forced into war against their wishes through mistrust or institutional problems. All they are saying is that we should give peace a chance by restraining our arms production, eliminating or reducing the effectiveness of our military alliances, and so forth. The Bush administration also includes skeptics who view international relations in line with a harder-edged view of human nature.