A Sustainable Peace
The war of ideas can only maintain victory if it can address the needs of the people. When a ten year old child is faced with poverty and neglect, they learn to hate.
When hate is offered a fight, it unleashes its fury.
A sustainable peace can only be maintained by preserving the family unit. This requires that the basic needs of the family are met. As long as the needs of the mother are neglected in favor of violence, there will be war.
What is needed to fight the war on terror, is an army of social workers.
Send in CPS, L&I and unemployment services. See that the power is maintained, that sanitation and fresh water supplies are available. That the land is kept fertile, and not destroyed by erosion, and famine. Stop the silent exploitation of woman and children.
These are the issues that need to be addressed to build a sustainable peace.
1) The immediate crisis is in Darfur. The U.S. must lean on the U.N. and Sudan to allow the 20,000 member peacekeeping force to secure the area. That we have allowed this genocide to occur at the same time we have fought our war in Iraq is a disgrace.
2) We must open dialogue with the educated Islamic community. At large, the Islamic community is comprised of moderates that do not support militant actions. If given the chance to voice their beliefs, we will find that we have more in common than we tend to believe. For instance, I think it reasonable that most Islamic Mother’s love their children. That is a great place to start.
3) We must step back and focus on where the modern conflict begins. That would be the Colonial movement of the renaissance era. The drastic turning point is the period of decolonialism, following World War II and the formation of the U.N. Taking this a step further, the progression of Cold War politics leads directly into the current crisis of the Middle East.
4) We must address the needs of the people. When you have some of the wealthiest people in the world living side by side with some of the most impoverished people in the world, there is a tendency towards violence. When a child has been displaced, and is living in a refuge camp, they want a way out. If that way is to join militant group, that is the decision that many will take.
5) Efforts must be taken to provide fresh water resources, proper sanitation, medicine made available, the conservation of the soil maintained, or in many cases healed, and the people fed. Power must be provided, security maintained, the rights of woman and children secured, employment made readily available, at reasonable wages, and education provided.
To be a great king requires an ordered kingdom, an ordered kingdom requires and ordered family, an ordered family requires an ordered mind, and ordered mind requires an ordered spirit.
Confucius
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