Letter: Veterans keeping military prominent

Wednesday, Nov. 17, 1999 | 10:05 a.m.

It all began in September 1961, when President John F. Kennedy formally presented the official U.S. disarmament program described in State Department Publication 7277. Entitled "Freedom From War: The United States Program for General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World," the program calls for the nations of the world -- including the United States -- to disarm, turn over their military might to the United Nations and make the world body an unchallengeable military power.

For several decades, pro-U.N. propaganda has held that furnishing the world body with enough power to "enforce peace" would benefit mankind and forestall the possibility of future wars. But there are some crucial questions that few consider: If the United Nations should become all-powerful, who would be left to prevent it from establishing its own brand of tyranny? If the United Nations were powerful enough to enforce peace, would it not also be powerful enough to enforce the will of its leaders on all mankind?

It is clear to me that the honoring and caring for our nation's veterans is at cross purposes to the increasing thrust of world domination by the United Nations.

FRANK M. PELTESON