08-19-2010, 01:26 AM
Hi,
I would welcome the change of attitude, if I thought any of those gestures actually represented a change of attitude. Yes, our leaders cry crocodile tears for what happened in the past and no longer effects us directly. And, when the situation arises, they revert to the same tactics they've used all along. Show me a world where repression, genocide, ethnic hatreds are really being addressed by the countries who can afford to address them. Show me a world where peace is maintained by peaceful means (even if that means some type of international police force) and where peace is being spread by education, economic support, and public pressure. Show me a world where expenditures for the common good is greater than that for warfare. Show me those worlds, and I'll believe those apologies.
For now, I remain skeptic.
--Pete
(08-18-2010, 11:06 PM)NuurAbSaal Wrote: I welcomed the change in attitude, . . .
I would welcome the change of attitude, if I thought any of those gestures actually represented a change of attitude. Yes, our leaders cry crocodile tears for what happened in the past and no longer effects us directly. And, when the situation arises, they revert to the same tactics they've used all along. Show me a world where repression, genocide, ethnic hatreds are really being addressed by the countries who can afford to address them. Show me a world where peace is maintained by peaceful means (even if that means some type of international police force) and where peace is being spread by education, economic support, and public pressure. Show me a world where expenditures for the common good is greater than that for warfare. Show me those worlds, and I'll believe those apologies.
For now, I remain skeptic.
--Pete
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