Defence industry protesters are wrong

• Adolf Hitler, although he was elected legitimately, was ultimately responsible for the deaths of an estimated 19 million people
• Joseph Stalin was the most famous leader of Russia during the 20th century. His first grab at power began after the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924.
• Mao Zedong
• Pol Pot (Cambodia, 1975-1979) Throughout the country, mass graves known as the Killing Fields were created. By 1979, it is estimated that around two million people had perished under Pol Pot's rule.
• Kim Il-sung (North Korea, 1948-1994)
• Saddam Hussein (Iraq, 1979-2003)
• Idi Amin (Uganda, 1971-1979)

All of them have caused wars, the deaths and untold suffering of many people, and have been supported by their acolytes and henchmen.

One final frustration with those trying to prevent wars is the Sydney Peace Foundation. I sent them the book asking them for support; that they would contact their readers, suggesting Australian should initiate action to strengthen the United Nations.

After all, an Australian politician was the first President of the UN. "Doc" Evatt, Minister for External Affairs in the Curtin and Chifley governments, was adamant that the new organisation should have more input from smaller countries.

Evatt succeeded in enlarging the scope of the UN's main body, the General Assembly, of which he was president from 1948 to 1949.

I need to find another Australian politician to help stop war. Perhaps Zali Steggall, an Olympic medallist. After all she proved more acceptable to the Australian public than a sitting Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, famously called a misogynist by former Labor Prime Minister Julia Gillard. Voters disagreed with his proposed changes to university fees and Medicare. His decision to award an Australian knighthood to the Duke of Edinburgh in January 2015 was also met with derision.

My request to Steggall will be to propose, through Australia's representative in the United Nations, to initiate a program of reform for the United Nations, primarily to strengthen its peace keeping operations.