Good, Peace, Private Interest, Public Loss and Ignorance

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  • Good, Peace, Private Interest, Public Loss and Ignorance

    In reading the history leading up to the second World War it seemed the world had learned an important lesson in trying to negotiate a peace through the concession of other people’s land and culture to the aggressor.  If you… Continue reading

  • Good and the Broken Rules of War

    For anyone who wasn’t born before, during, or immediately after World War II, you may have forgotten or never been consciously aware of the crucial lessons taught by the conduct of WWII and its end.  If you are an American… Continue reading

  • Good, Empathy, Conscience and War

    This writer scans the news for actual facts and waits for the information to either contradict or confirm existing versions of what might be true. This morning of course, the headlines screamed WAR. And below that prospect were the news… Continue reading

  • Good and Why did four to five hundred People Need to Die in Gaza?

    How you might ask will this writer tie the deaths of four to five hundred people he doesn’t even know to the word good.  The answer is simple; he can’t. So I will write about something closer to penance.  I can’t… Continue reading

  • Good and Another Argument Against War

    We have seen large two strategies of war in our world  these recent years.  The first seems constructed around ‘stock pile strategy’  which is whoever runs out of weapons of destruction first loses.  Civilians be damned we shall keep the… Continue reading

  • Good, Dishonor and Appeasement: Peace in the Shadows

    I am reminded this week by the shameful work of the current administration of Neville Chamberlain’s signing the Munich Agreement in 1938 with Germany’s Adolf Hitler, Fascist Italy and the French Republic. This agreement allowed Nazi Germany to annex Sudetenland… Continue reading

  • Good, War, and the new Escalating Stalemate

    As we pass through year one of the middle east conflict I have to wonder if perhaps we have a third party in these tragic wars of our new young century. That third party would be an arms industry that… Continue reading