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A protester carries a sign that reads "Defund The Police" during the Black Women Matter "Say Her Name" march in Richmond, Va., on July 3, 2020. Eze Amos/Getty Images
In Switzerland, there are statues in honor of generals, not because they won battles or wars, but because they kept the country out of war. How did they do that? By making Switzerland impregnable and thus deterring any military aggression.
Philip Carl Salzman is professor emeritus of anthropology at McGill University, senior fellow at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, fellow at the Middle East Forum, and Past President of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East.
