peace
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Good and Negotiating Victory in a War Already Lost
Throwing the dice may work in a Casino once in a while, but it is not a good idea in the world of geopolitics. The average Iranian has certainly been a loser in this war when you consider the dice… Continue reading
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Good and the Devil You Think you Know
The easiest thing in the world is to accumulate evidence supporting your hatred of another person in the political realm. At the same time it is almost impossible to imagine how you yourself became the devil other people hate. Yet,… Continue reading
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Good, Peace, and Violent Voices Condemning Violent Acts
I once explained to a friend I couldn’t vote for the current president because it struck me he has a warring mind and warring minds beget warring acts. Violence begins with violent minds and violent minds express violence leading to… Continue reading
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Good, America, and the Playground Bully’s Fate
This writer has lost more than a few playground fights in his youth. I learned to give those sullen, foul mouthed, often lonely, bulked up bully boys a little space. As I matured I watched wondering what happened to them. … Continue reading
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Good and Move Over God, The War Department has This
One thing we should have learned by now is you can’t prevail in a war using bombs exclusively and those ‘boots on the ground’ will ultimately be worn by our young men and women and not the people who send… Continue reading
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Good, AI Propaganda, and Two Goliaths Seeking their David
The David and Goliath story is known in both secular and religious contexts to almost every man woman and child raised in western culture. The giant of a warrior with shining armor, certain of victory, is brought down by a… Continue reading
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Good and the Life of A Grief that Lasts Too Long
I have followed in this new century four wars and this writer has felt overwhelmed by the tragedies of schools being blown up along with teachers, staff and their young charges. It seems when a nation decides on war be… Continue reading
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Good, War Dependency, and the Warring Mind
Two world “leaders” dependent on war for personal legal reasons or bumping their poll numbers up have just started a war. There is no question these two public men should be cautious and very public about entering a war in… Continue reading
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Good, Lethality and What Can’t be Unknown
What we think and how we think matters. What we think and document matters even more for what we think and document has power. That power separated from you, the author, has its own destiny engaging beyond your private universe… Continue reading
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Good and When Investigation Goes Nuclear
The tragic problem with nuclear weapons has been up until recently it has been mutually understood that a nuclear war was a lose-lose response assuring many many civilians would die and no one would win. The Epstein investigation went public… Continue reading