But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The American people want peace. They have long since ceased to talk of a hard or a soft peace for Germany.
We want peace to be permanent.
As Americans after 9/11, we're much more united, together as a nation, and we got stronger, better, and more at peace. By peace, I mean the harmony you can feel in our united determination to fight these terrorists and killers.
Understandably, no peace can sustained when people continue to suffer from hunger, lack of jobs, lack of basic public services - and most of all - lack of opportunity or hope.
It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.
True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.
We want peace, but not at any price.
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
I said it was my feeling that the American people would struggle for peace, and that has since been underscored by the President of these United States.