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I'm not sure that I can agree with that assessment
although I hope you will remember that I'm not exactly for sipping Coke around the campfire singing Kumbaya... I can't categorically dismiss all the proposed "solutions" as insipid. I think we have a need to find, as a culture, some sort of balance/equilibrium. In Ecclesiastes, it says there is a time for "every season under heaven, a time for war, a time for peace".
Specifically, I have had to find a way to temper my own anger to be able to separate out the valid criticisms of US foreign policy from the "whining" and propoganda. I still think it may be valid to get to some of the "root causes" (as Brandioch has been suggesting), as we move forward. I refuse to accept that any perceived injustice validates terrorist acts. History proves time and again that nonviolent revolutionaries (such as Jesus Christ, Ghandi, Martin Luther King) have much more lasting impact... (Palestinians, are you listening?)
I believe that we are at a point when we need to evaluate what direction our nation will go "after" the War on Terrorism. Military might is only one measure of the "greatness" of a country. Restraint is another. We need to discuss how can we improve conditions in the third world where there truly is so much suffering and perhaps some of it due to our greed and current SOP...
The entire world is watching how we conduct ourselves now. There is a general understanding of this war up to this point given the events of Sept 11. World opinion may even support an expanded war. But there will be a point, if we make one too many unilateral decisions, push the war "too far", that we will lose favorable world opinion. We will still live in "the world" after this war, so I do think world opinion matters. But we need to also think past this war for our children's sake. I, for one, would still like for my grandchildren to be standing around the campfire, hand in hand, drinking Cokes and singing Kumbaya...
Just a few thoughts,
Screamer
There's nothing in the streets
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Are now parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight
P. Townshend - Won't Get Fooled Again