Dear John xxxxxx,

Mr. Kennedy asks us: “Who do we want to be? A nation of war, or a nation of peace?”

This week, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. made a defining speech to set a new direction for American foreign policy in his administration and beyond. He called for peace, diplomacy, and an end to the forever wars, based on a radically different vision of ourselves and the world.

Speech Transcript

Mr. Kennedy’s call for peace echoes one of the most famous peace speeches of all time: his uncle President John F. Kennedy’s address at American University 60 years ago this month at the height of the Cold War.

In calling for de-escalation and diplomacy with Russia, Mr. Kennedy invoked deeper principles – the ideological foundations of the mentality of endless war. Here are two statements with enduring relevance.

“We have been immersed in a foreign policy discourse that is all about adversaries and threats and allies and enemies and domination.”

“We’ve become addicted to comic book good versus evil narratives that erase complexity and blind us to the legitimate motives and legitimate economic concerns and the legitimate security concerns of other people and other nations.”

Mr. Kennedy made it clear that this is not merely an issue of foreign policy. He said, “Is it any wonder that as America has waged violence throughout the world, violence has overtaken us in our own nation? It has not come as an invasion. It has come from within. Our bombs, our drones, our armies are incapable of stopping gun violence on our streets and in our schools, or domestic violence in our homes. I see the same link here as my father and Martin Luther King saw about the Vietnam War. They believed that we could not have warfare abroad without bringing that violence home to our streets, to our attitudes, to our communities. Foreign violence is inseparable from domestic violence.”

Kennedy asks us all, as individuals and as a nation: "Is this really who we are? Is this what we want to be? Is that what America's Founders envisioned?" 

Is this who we are? That is up to us to decide. You can help choose peace by supporting the peace candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Donate to our campaign and help put Mr. Kennedy into the White House! 

Thanks again for your support.

Team Kennedy
http://www.kennedy24.com/

Footnotes: 

Link to Full Peace video: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s Peace and Diplomacy Speech

Link to the full text of RFK, Jr.’s speech.