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Read the passage from former President John F. Kennedy's Speech at American University.


(7) Today the expenditure of billions of dollars every year of weapons acquired for the purpose of making sure we never need to use them is essential to keeping the peace. But surely the acquisition of such idle stockpiles-which can only destroy and never create-is not the only, much less the most efficient, means of assuring peace. I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize that the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war-and frequently the words of the pursuer fall on deaf ears. But we have no more urgent task..

PROMPT: Analyze this passage. Describe the rhetorical appeal(s) used by former President Kennedy in the speech. Provide evidence from the text to support your thinking, including in-text citations. Edit View Insert Format Tools Table​