The pure idiocy and naivete of this article makes me want to go out and do something violent:

This past April, Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio introduced legislation that would establish a Cabinet-level Department of Peace. I -- along with thousands of others -- have lobbied our congresspeople and advocated the idea however possible to friends and associates.

The goal of the department would be to coordinate conflict-resolution and peace-building efforts both domestically and internationally, providing the president with a much broader array of options for handling violent situations than are normally presented to him. Would we be so quick to apply police and military solutions to our collective problems, if we had peaceful alternatives deemed every bit as effective and sometimes even more so?

"We will not solve the problems of the world," said Albert Einstein, "from the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." More than anything else, this new century demands new thinking: We must change our materially based analyses of the world around us to include broader, more multidimensional perspectives. People cause our social problems, and people are more than merely material beings. To address the causal issues regarding these problems, we must deal with more than material factors.

Blah, blah, blah. Kucinich is Jerry Brown without the IQ or style. We have a cabinet level position to ensure peace, it's called the Dept. of Defense.