Posted: July 28, 2006 Kudos and consequences by: Editors Report / Indian Country Today Indigenous Games, United Nations and perpetual war
Deadly consequences of limited thinking To continue on the international, certainly few kudos are visible - only the consequences of major acts guided by limited capacity. Conflicts around the world that used to be handled with more realistic, if always crude, management approaches now flare weekly into full-out bombings of whole countries and targeted civilian populations, wars of genocide left unattended and civil wars based on religious sectarianism exploding in the so-called Iraqi democracy, where the killing weekly increases. Once the world's expectedly rational superpower signals war and military might as its central message, the whole world - already fearful and aggressive - will surely follow. Simpleminded American dictums of war as policy, of war as the solution to the problems of violent tensions in the world, are generating disastrous, if perhaps unintended, consequences. War as perpetual metaphor of life in our times, the spectrum of war forever, signals of increased and unimpeded drive to military power: this American message of the current administration blankets a gloomy dread onto to the world. Declarations of ''war'' upon everything from poverty to drugs to terrorism are the hands of men of high intellectual (and every other kind of) power but of very limited thinking. Peoples with affinity for the future generations based on the wisdom of the grandfathers and grandmothers recoil at the lack of foresight in an international policy that offers no hope - that limits the partners in every dialogue - so that enemies are actually kept from talking to one another while world events descend into bloody chaos. What might have been a police action, even of massive scale, to roll up al-Qaida and take down its support base in Afghanistan and everywhere - something that the whole Middle East and the world would have assisted - was turned into fundamentalist chaos, a hurricane of bloody passions and for America, a lonely and deadly quagmire of unlikely return. War forever as the declaration of our times is the answer to nothing. The world needs America to lead for peace.
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