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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (8417)	10/23/2001 4:15:07 PM
From: Bill Fischofer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27666

Good will is the key. However much we might wish to we cannot change the past, which is why ancient animosities and dwelling over past injustices are such obstacles to peace and understanding. The dead do not rule us, but it seems that those with no sense of a future invariably turn back towards what they imagine to have been a past golden age. In this path lies only frustration for the past is forever beyond anyone's reach. One of the reasons why America is so different culturally from many others is that it is relentlessly future-oriented, and in many ways this is the secret to its success. The circumstances of your birth or of your family history mean little, which is why immigrants from around the world arriving with nothing more than the clothes on their backs have always sought a better life for themselves and their children on these shores. Americans always look ahead, which is why we find it difficult to understand those who can seemingly only look back at who did what to whom in the (sometimes very distant) past. The spirit of good will needed to achieve peace and justice is perhaps best summed up in the famous prayer of St. Francis: Lord, grant me the courage to change the things I can change, the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, and the wisdom to know the difference.