Originally posted by Agathon
The Sharon government would be a good start.
support the arab israeli peace process, and cut off funds to terrorist groups that obstruct it.
The Sharon government would be a good start.
Neither the American posters here should really believe their country is all goodness and light(because it isnt), and no British person either imho - we've done all sorts of awfull things in the past(and present).
When any country tries this it leads to war and innocent non combatant people dying.
Now just because you've been brain-washed isnt a valid excuse imho. Look at what happend in WW2 when theoretical rhetoric was used by the governments on both sides of the divide.
We need to be smarter than this. We need to make our hard won democracies actualy count for something.
We need to scrutinize our elected servents much more closely.
We need to make sure that if we really want to change the world for the better - spreading peace and prosperity and democracy, then we need our actions in the world to be positive. Killing people either directly or indirectly isn't positve action.
So lets just all grow up as human beings - put behind us our primitive and bloody past and reach into the future for a positive, respectful, fair world.
I really believe that by using our streangths we can change the world for the better - by shareing our wealth, our freedom(and i dont mean the current Bush's version of it at all) etc we would win everyone around.
In the old days you could simply conquer a people. word didn't travel far or fast, so you could get away with it. We dont live in that world anymore(and havent fora good few hundred years).
But the generous/benevolent leader of a prosperous people would be able to effect the change necesary for us to move forward, it wont be easy and it wont happen over night. It will take alot of effort from us all in our privaliged postions.
Thats my gut feeling on it, and i believe more and more people are coming around to this point of view.
The people of the world are educated, smart, and more informed. We can see the wood for the trees and we will endevour to make the story of humankind a success rather than a dismal failure.
Then true good will have won the day and your childrens children will thank us for the trouble we went to. Its quite simple really.
Comment