Sorry I'm on digest so can't refer to a specific posting.
Someone linked to an article and said something like: Anti-americanism is dead. Or some such. I agree there's nothing to be gained from anti-americanism. Speaking from the pacifist side of the open-space I'm glad we finally are seeing nudges towards democracy in Iraq. But I also find it hard to see how anyone in favour of collaborative organizational change -- which is what I take open-space to be -- could feel all that comfy with a war justified by lies and false intelligence. War is always about changing the government of another nation-state by killing its citizens. That's about as far from collaborative change as you can get. It may at times be necessary. But when it is -- surely the ideal in a democratic state is to have a meaningful conversation about what counts as necessary so the management team (aka the Executive Branch) can have a mandate based upon informed consent. If I was an American -- I'm a Canuck -- I would be worried about the situation. Perhaps I have it bass-ackwards. But in wartime survival dictates "my country right or wrong" but in peacetime democracy dictates that the citizenry place democracy itself as the priority. David McKay * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
