I couldn’t agree more. The risk of a wider Mid-East war is growing. The chatter to mold the US public opinion in favor of attacking Iran, suggests that destroying Hamas and going after Hezbollah will not be sufficient to guarantee peace and security for Israel. Attempts to provoke Iran to engage in a direct military confrontation pose a serious risk of a wider war.
A key problem is that the best minds among us tend to focus their lens on what's happening in today's headlines. Each trouble spot is examined one by one, day by day. This is obviously necessary to keep us informed, but such a process has no hope of ever liberating us from a never ending pattern of such disastrous conflicts, which are likely to grow both in number and scale over time.
As example, as the article above reports, Hezbollah already has enough rockets to inflict unspeakable horror upon Israel. As the knowledge explosion continues to race forward, what kinds of weapons are such groups going to have in 10, 20, 30 years? Are we going to cling to the patterns of the past so that we can find out?
If we are to avoid a global catastrophe, sooner or later we're going to have to find a way to turn our attention to the source of all these conflicts, violent men, a small fraction of the human population.
What we do now is focus on particular violent men, typically one at a time. Yesterday it was Putin, today Hezbollah, tomorrow somebody else. What should be seen, understood, and admitted is that this process has utterly failed to end such conflicts.
People will say that shifting our focus to the source of these conflicts, to violent men as a subset of the human species, is unrealistic. We should be asking in return, what is realistic about clinging to a one by one, day by day focus that has never brought us peace for thousands of years?
What is realistic and reasonable about clinging to that which has never worked???
I couldn’t agree more. The risk of a wider Mid-East war is growing. The chatter to mold the US public opinion in favor of attacking Iran, suggests that destroying Hamas and going after Hezbollah will not be sufficient to guarantee peace and security for Israel. Attempts to provoke Iran to engage in a direct military confrontation pose a serious risk of a wider war.
A key problem is that the best minds among us tend to focus their lens on what's happening in today's headlines. Each trouble spot is examined one by one, day by day. This is obviously necessary to keep us informed, but such a process has no hope of ever liberating us from a never ending pattern of such disastrous conflicts, which are likely to grow both in number and scale over time.
As example, as the article above reports, Hezbollah already has enough rockets to inflict unspeakable horror upon Israel. As the knowledge explosion continues to race forward, what kinds of weapons are such groups going to have in 10, 20, 30 years? Are we going to cling to the patterns of the past so that we can find out?
If we are to avoid a global catastrophe, sooner or later we're going to have to find a way to turn our attention to the source of all these conflicts, violent men, a small fraction of the human population.
What we do now is focus on particular violent men, typically one at a time. Yesterday it was Putin, today Hezbollah, tomorrow somebody else. What should be seen, understood, and admitted is that this process has utterly failed to end such conflicts.
People will say that shifting our focus to the source of these conflicts, to violent men as a subset of the human species, is unrealistic. We should be asking in return, what is realistic about clinging to a one by one, day by day focus that has never brought us peace for thousands of years?
What is realistic and reasonable about clinging to that which has never worked???