A new year: is it a good time to ask for a new approach?
If history teaches anything, it’s that fighting rarely solves anything. When the fight is over, we have to talk to the folk we were fighting with. Isn’t it better to quit the fight now and launch a dialogue?
How we love to maintain and justify our entrenched positions! It is madness to suppose that repeating the actions of the past will have a different outcome in the future. The only people who benefit are the arms manufacturers.
Remember: the folk we are killing think they are right. They may or may not be, but killing them won’t change their minds. More likely, we produce yet another generation of fighters and haters, more entrenched positions, more legacy to unravel, more violence to be visited upon the next generation. What kind of a world would you like to donate to your children?
Having read quite a few of your posts I did (do) enjoy the mixture. It was this very post that – despite being a most lazy commenter – I decided to leave at least a short com(pli)ment: Chapeau.
I might even come back.
Thanks Sean. I aim to challenge and entertain. Glad you liked it.
Rob.