| | | O/T LG, with regards to the other thread you suggested, I did mention that I don't do silos. I believe many of the contemporary issues in our society stem from people retreating into interacting only with those who agree with their own personal bias. Echo chambers, no matter what form they take, are not a healthy way to bring people together, IMO.
In order to have true, constructive discourse, I believe we must have respectful exchanges that empathize with the others we are having a dialogue with. We've lost that in the new age of impersonal social media.
Escalation leads to escalation. De-escalation leads to de-escalation.
While this may be difficult and many times impractical, it is the hard things that often times yield the greatest results.
As for crimes committed by administrations, I can't recall one in my lifetime that didn't commit them. Maybe that's part of the lure of the office.
When papers are declassified, we often find interesting things. For example, it was recently revealed that there is written proof that Nixon violated the Logan Act and deliberately sabotaged the 1968 Paris Peace Talks during the election campaign. Kissinger, at the time in the Johnson administration, leaked to the Nixon campaign that the North and South Vietnamese were going to settle for peace, and Nixon stopped it.
1-million more Vietnamese and 20,000 US serviceman died as a result of delaying the peace that was to be made in 1968.
Kissinger is still alive. |
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