…bouzouki dropped these my way and I thought I would share them with you.
The use of force to obtain objectives is becoming obsolete, but i doubt that we will stop using war, even if it doesn’t work. To a man with a hammer, every problem is a nail. War in Afghanistan cost the USSR its empire. War in Vietnam cost the USA 58,000 dead, and the price was not high enough to teach us anything. I wonder how much more we need to spend before we will have too little to protect.
The next terrorist may not fight for any religion or ideology, it may be a spurned love, a hidden bankruptcy, or a feeling of being wronged. We will call only the politically motivated as terrorist, not the socially motivated. We will not call a governmental act as terrorist, we may call it justified, though.when a person or group operates from a position of superior strength, they assume that their position is correct and the other side must acquiesce without resistance. We use ideology, dogma, economic superiority, mythology, or just might in the face of a less equipped foe and justify it with any number of ways to state our position. When the Ethic of Reciprocity runs its course, it is clear that we may be forced to find a different set of reasons to justify behavior, and there may not be any justification.
The treatment of others has consequences, many are unintended consequences, which are a special branch, the branch that breaks between you and the tree.
