Ted Turner Calls for an End to Fighting and a Focus

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Ted Turner Calls for an End to Fighting and a Focus on Solving the World's Problems
Entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner delivered a rousing commencement speech at Manhattanville College on Saturday, May 12, 2007 at the College's Purchase, NY campus.

Manhattanville College President Richard A. Berman introduced Turner as "a consummate businessman, entrepreneur, futurist and philanthropist whose bold ideas and dynamic vision have changed the world." Turner, who was presented with an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree, delivered an address that covered global warming and climate change, nuclear weapons, the similarity of the wars in Iraq and Vietnam, and the need for peace in the world.

Said Turner,

"Here's what I've learned like you've learned from your international
students here (at Manhattanville): if you treat everybody with dignity,
respect and friendliness, all you'll find is friends. All over the world.
Now if you're looking for a fight like George W., our President. He
likes to fight...We've got global warming and overpopulation and
environmental degradation, overfishing oceans. We have enough problems to
concentrate on without bombing each other ... Instead of sending soldiers
over there and bombers, what we ought to do is send them doctors and
teachers."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20070512/pl_usnw/ted_turner_calls_for_an_end_to_fighting_and_a_focus_on_solving_the_world_s_problems

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1. I've always thought

that our overseas troops should be doctors, teachers, carpenters, electricians, farmers--people who can help rebuild and improve lives, not destroy them.

[Kagemusha]

2. ....How would they be troops then?

And how would Democrats support spending money that could be spent on Americans, on foreigners instead?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. a troop can be defined as a group of people

who are working for a common goal. After all, isn't that what the Salvation Army really is about?

And spending money on foreigners--interesting that a Democrat named Kennedy proposed doing just that with something called the Peace Corps.