Comment from Dr. K

I'm going to start posting up "comments" or responses to the items on the blog. When you make a comment to a particular post, no one can see it unless they click on the "comments" icon at the end of the post. This way, everyone can see it. If you choose to comment, if would be preferable if you would use your name, but not required. Here's a comment from "Dr. K."(who's identity is not known to me):

And regarding that "consciousness of peace,” it was in place here in 1898 then the US violated the neutrality of Hawaii as a sovereign nation-State thus by force of arms preempting a recognized member of the family of nations' choice to exercise "aloha" to all nations as its official foreign policy, something it had been doing since 1843. Not everyone knows that aloha was part of the early geopolitical scene among nations and that the Hawaiian Islands as a constitutional monarchy proudly maintained that position for 50 years by rule of domestic law for internal affairs and by treaty with dozens of other nation-States for external affairs. Someday, because of environmental sustainability issues and other changes in the world, we may be forced to be an independent political entity once more. Stranger things have happened. The Baltic States of Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia restored their independent governments in 1991 as a result of the end of the Soviet Union's control of Eastern Europe by force. Stranger things have happened.