September 1, 2014
Pocket paradigms
We need a museum of the good, curricula in decency
studies, and practice in its skills and rhythms. We need peace experts
instead of military experts on Fox and MSNBC. We need mediators instead
of just lawyers on Court TV. We need movies, heroes, and moving stories
that win Academy Awards with models for our children that lead them to
the contentment of cooperation and fairness rather than to brutal
examples drawn from the play-by-play of violence and wrong that appears
with every other click of the zapper. - Sam Smith
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No. We need to identify the bad guys and beat bumps on them. Negotiating with straw men is useful only as propaganda. It is tragic that so many of our leaders, especially military men who should know better, think that there is such a thing as "asymmetric warfare" when the true culprit nations, or tyrants, should be altogether obvious to anyone from their own past and present statements. It would be easy to negotiate the destruction of Israel with the Palestinians, for example, but they are not in charge, and those who are in charge have no honor whatever. Those who rule the Palestinians will fight for the destruction of Israel to the last Palestinian.
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