Sorry for the lapse
Whew!
What a busy set of weeks. On a personal note, the past ice storm here in St. Louis ended with me having one less vehicle (I wasn’t driving at the time – she’s OK thank you). So, between work, outside obligations, and the hunt for another vehicle, time to enter thoughts here has been limited. So, I’m making up for lost time. Here goes:
Iraq
We’re there. Deal with it! I’d have preferred that we didn’t go there in the first place although it’s good that that Saddam is no longer in power. I like what I heard one Mullah say, “We are like birds who were born in a cage and our parents were born in the cage. The Americans have taken away the cage; but, we have no idea how to fly and must struggle to learn.” It will take at least a full generation or more before the society will have evolved enough to accept the new thinking. Remember the Whisky rebellion? You don’t? Go back and study American history to learn how freedom can alter the way you think and open opportunities to divide a country.
China
It’s the biggest thing going right now (no pun intended). If the US does not figure out a way to allow modernization in this massive country, the internal struggles will eventually result in “less than optimal condition.” Their greatest resource is people and every great country exploits its greatest resource. America had land, land, land – and natural resources. It didn’t matter if there were indigenous people on that land, we exploited it. We may have eventually turned out alright – but look at the time and the cost.
Religion in Public Life
There hasn’t been too much notoriety on this in recent weeks and days. That’s good. Can’t we all realize that all people believe something? Some may simply not to have God included in that set of beliefs. In spite of my disagreement with that sentiment, we all need to accept the fact that people are different and that enriches us as a people. It is the moral application of principles that is important to “public life” and not the denomination, sect, order, or other subdivisions of belief. Protestant/Catholic or Sunni/Shiite, Evangelical/Atheist or Democrat/Republican; it is the public discourse of ideas that allows us to express ourselves and open ourselves up to the possibility that the world may be just a bit bigger than we had previously thought.
Enough for now. More later.
What a busy set of weeks. On a personal note, the past ice storm here in St. Louis ended with me having one less vehicle (I wasn’t driving at the time – she’s OK thank you). So, between work, outside obligations, and the hunt for another vehicle, time to enter thoughts here has been limited. So, I’m making up for lost time. Here goes:
Iraq
We’re there. Deal with it! I’d have preferred that we didn’t go there in the first place although it’s good that that Saddam is no longer in power. I like what I heard one Mullah say, “We are like birds who were born in a cage and our parents were born in the cage. The Americans have taken away the cage; but, we have no idea how to fly and must struggle to learn.” It will take at least a full generation or more before the society will have evolved enough to accept the new thinking. Remember the Whisky rebellion? You don’t? Go back and study American history to learn how freedom can alter the way you think and open opportunities to divide a country.
China
It’s the biggest thing going right now (no pun intended). If the US does not figure out a way to allow modernization in this massive country, the internal struggles will eventually result in “less than optimal condition.” Their greatest resource is people and every great country exploits its greatest resource. America had land, land, land – and natural resources. It didn’t matter if there were indigenous people on that land, we exploited it. We may have eventually turned out alright – but look at the time and the cost.
Religion in Public Life
There hasn’t been too much notoriety on this in recent weeks and days. That’s good. Can’t we all realize that all people believe something? Some may simply not to have God included in that set of beliefs. In spite of my disagreement with that sentiment, we all need to accept the fact that people are different and that enriches us as a people. It is the moral application of principles that is important to “public life” and not the denomination, sect, order, or other subdivisions of belief. Protestant/Catholic or Sunni/Shiite, Evangelical/Atheist or Democrat/Republican; it is the public discourse of ideas that allows us to express ourselves and open ourselves up to the possibility that the world may be just a bit bigger than we had previously thought.
Enough for now. More later.
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