"This amounts to wishing an easier and different situation into place, since you don't want to even think about the existing difficult situation."
What an odd conclusion for you to make. What your conclusion amounts to is that there are no and could be no good coming from ... "engagement in open and involved discussion about mutually beneficial interests."
You may as well say abandoning hope for a decent future of peaceful coexistence is the only option we have.
Continuing to look for constructive venues is not equivalent to wishing on a star. A wish is not the same as having hopes for our children's future. Hopes can and are realized through sincere efforts by decent people to build a better tomorrow.
"...since you don't want to even think about the existing difficult situation."
That is a malicious lie Nadine. You owe me an apology. Here are my thoughts about what I obviously consider a difficult situation on the Eastern Hemisphere, and I have posted these thoughts in part and parcel regularly to you and others. So your allegation is an inexcusable falsehood.
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We are living in a very volatile and dangerous time that should be taken serious by all reasonable and decent people.
Iran representing Shia Islam has oil wealth and is building nuclear power wealth none of which will go unmarketed to Asia or where ever they choose to wield influence. They don't need to launch nuclear bombs, they can grow enriched uranium and sell it to entities who build nuclear bombs (Syria possibly) or use their wealth to encourage others to have nuke fights and sit quietly by growing their economic power and influence over satellite armies like Hesbollah, the badr brigade, and the Mahdi Army.
Iran's ruling radical regime knows the culture and people of Iran will not condone further global isolation. With respect to this circumstance it can and is continuing to draw attention to its nuclear head fake while waging a real proxy war against the West in Southern Iraq. It supports the al-Qud special forces of the Revolutionary Guard who are in Iraq, militia trained by Hesbollah and fierce anti-American military militia movements like the Mahdi Army, last estimated at 60K+ and expected to grow exponentially over time. At the rate of current growth, it will soon eclipse the Iraqi military. I see nothing that would stop it from becoming an international Shi'ite military force as the founders intended. Tehran also uses its influence quite effectively to promote anti-western leadership into Iraqi political office.
They have realized that by cooperating with the US now to quell insurgencies in Southern Iraq while continuing to destabilize the National govt of Iraq, and by biding their time, they will achieve a long term goal of removing Western influence from Iraq and will be replacing that with their brand of extremism from Iran through Iraq-Syria-Lebanon.
The frontier regions of Pakistan are vast pristine mountain areas that have never been under the control of the proper Pakistan government. If or when Musharaf is taken out or neutralized the military and government of Pakistan will be up for grabs and could easily go to revolutionaries. Money is no object since the funding for a revolution would come from various outside sources. India is already growing a superpower and once a fundamentalist regime is in power in Pakistan the likelihood of matching India's military development is very high. A fundamentalist Pakistan regime will emerge, coup style, then the wealth of radical Sunni groups will flow to Pakistan. Al-Quaida has already begun to morph into something different in Pakistan than it was in Afghanistan. It will resurface offering a more benevolent appearance. The history and legacy of Pakistan is unlike any country in the world. It was founded specifically to advance Islam and Islamic prophesy. Pakistan representing Sunni Islam will acquire superpower military status eventually. It is not compromised by entanglements with outside political regions like other Sunni nations are. It is ideally located to unite the regions of Sunni Islam on the Eastern Hemisphere under one agenda.
China and India are forming alliances to acquire economic superpower status to challenge western dominance. Well on their way already, they are including Russia who has a superpower military and especially because Russia has nukes. Russia is also on the rise as a dominating force on the Eastern Hemisphere. Russia is attempting a new type of United grouping of nations under it’s wing for military and economic strength, but is being careful not to topple other nations in the process USSR style; while both Russia and China are courting Iran for trade in commerce, power, and weaponry. European countries that were once allied with the USA will cooperate for many reasons, one of them being that they are becoming more and more dependant on Russia for natural gas fuel. Russia has built a natural gas pipeline across western Europe and is able to get political cooperation from regions they were unable to manage militarily under the USSR.
The United States is a country founded on freedom. Our Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights all discuss and ensure these freedoms. Yet despite this, America has never entirely become the reality for which we strive. The history of this nation is a story of moving towards freedom, coming ever closer and closer, without actually reaching the ultimate goal. This story of the striving for freedom will continue as long as this country stands.
Our current struggle is against fear.
That’s the problem and you can either be a part of the problem or a part of the solution. There is one solution and one only, unite in principle and in purpose to conquer the fear and power of fear and terror. Then and only then are the petty tyranists stripped of their artificial authority and exposed for what they are.
America is great because it is founded upon principles of decency where liberty and justice for all is the rule, where peace on earth and good will toward all is an intention, where tolerance and respect for the differences among us has been codified.
It is not great because brutes can scream about their patriotism from the middle of a schizzed out mob while hijacking our principles of decency, to advance their own version of heinous persecution and bigotry; that is simply an unfortunate and ironic side effect.
We have free will. We can by our will power to be part of the solution?
Best regards,
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