Blog4Peace, the biggest link-up of all...I almost did miss it, this year. I've been busier offline this year.
Nevertheless.
Even for Israel...This web site has no foreign policy. This web site believes that people in other countries look like adults, from here, and should settle their differences like adults. However, we have to say: Hamas terrorists have no reason to live, but seriously, Mr. Netanyahu, primary schools?
Trump claimed to want to be the peace president. With Hamas he succeeded in removing the primary obstacle to proper police action, but not in securing peace, because a legitimate elected official's pledge of peace means nothing to terrorists. Now even Trump is making ugly Republican noises about war and this web site has to say: Please, Republicans yammering at Trump to do the Republican thing and declare war on a small harmless country. There has to be a better way.
There is a hilarious movie about Republican warmongering. Everyone should watch it. It's free.
Republican friends should know that warmongering is the primary reason why I and a lot of other people have never joined your party. The Republican Party successfully dumped segregation but it has yet to dump the idea that a big, rich country's declaring war on some small, poor country is a good way to stimulate the rich country's economy. There have to be other ways to stimulate the economy, and other causes to rally people around...Trump tried (give the devil his due) to use border-jumpers, but he self-sabotaged by confusing border-jumping criminals with legal immigrants. Trump is not the best person to rally people around the cause of ending hatecrimes against women, long overdue for national attention. Trump could try freedom of speech and/or privacy, as issues around which most Americans would rally, but he doesn't seem to want to try that...which, in view of his history, is a bad sign; he is still only a baby Christian. I'm downright eager to rally around Kennedy and go to war on chemical pollution, myself. But Nigeria? Has money even been tried in Nigeria?
"But war on chemical pollution wouldn't stimulate the economy! It would sabotage the chemical companies!" someone might say.
To which I say: bosh. Very simple boiler/steamer technology would eliminate most need for "herbicides," but it wouldn't work on wheat. Natural botanical science might be used to find ways of growing weed-free wheat (without splicing genes). Robotic technology might be used to protect wheat in traditional fields. So-called scientists who are dragging their heels, not leaping enthusiastically at the problem of eliminating poisons from commercial farming, are weak and poor-spirited old men who need to be replaced. If visions of new technology aren't already dancing in their heads, that's their fault, not mine.
The young need their "New Frontier"...I propose this one. At the very least, building robots that can identify and destroy tares, and boll weevils and spongey moths, has to be more rewarding than war.
oh heck yeah, I feel so much the same I was nodding all the way through.
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ReplyDeleteThis world feels too complex for me to make much sense of. I find no logic or reasoning behind what humans do today.
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