Dan, thank you. Thank you so much for being persistent. I'll tell you the trick, why it worked.

He was persistent and extraordinarily polite, and it really worked because I said that's a meeting.

I want to do everything I can to make. So it is a little bit rushed today, but an honor to be here. And really a special, a special delight to be at a conference whose title is Blueprint, Peace. We don't hear much about peace in this world, strangely enough, other than on the

judges' show, and from the Ron Paul Institute. Today, I was looking at all of the banner

headlines about the failure yesterday in Alaska.

The failure because we didn't launch World War III because the two presidents had a good meeting together

because they announced progress.

This is taken as failure in our media which of course is

hawkish by the moment and

manipulated by controlled by paid by or simply aligned with the military

industrial complex in the country.

So it's extraordinarily hard to hear a word about peace in this country.

It's not so complicated, actually, to end these conflicts.

It's a little surprising how long it takes and how hard it is to accomplish this,

but it's not so hard in substance because the underlying reasons for the conflicts that the

United States is in perpetually are not sound reasons from the point of view of America's interests,

from the point of view of our security, from the point of view of our well-being or our economy.

All of the conflicts that we are in and those that we could get in are misguided, misdirected,

provoked by us to a very large extent, and solvable.

That's the basic point.

It really is not so complicated. I think the wisest words which we repeat

and Dan just started us with that we've heard in the 80 years since the end of World War II were those in President Eisenhower's

...