{"id":180,"date":"2008-12-30T14:32:31","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T14:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/intentchopra\/2008\/12\/how-to-convert-to-a-peaceful-e.html"},"modified":"2008-12-30T14:32:31","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T14:32:31","slug":"how-to-convert-to-a-peaceful-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/intentchopra\/2008\/12\/how-to-convert-to-a-peaceful-e.html","title":{"rendered":"Memo to President-Elect Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

You have been elected by the first anti-war constituency since 1952, when Eisenhower was elected after promising to end the Korean War. But ending a war isn’t the same as bringing peace. America has been on a war footing since the day after Pearl Harbor, sixty-seven years ago. We spend more on our military than the next sixteen countries combined. If you have a vision of change that goes to the heart of this country’s deep problems, ending our dependence on war is far more important than ending our dependency on foreign oil.
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