Posted at February 26, 2019, 2:11 pm:
Yes, I really think we are. I am starting this thread because I miss debating about Israel and the middle east and politics. So here goes it, and oh we are followwing the Yoda way of debating. Expect every letter you say to be quoted and then responded to with "back it up". and you had better be able to back it up.
I'm not about to tell you that the world is perfect, or that it should be perfct. To have a Right, you must have a wrong. To have a dark you must have a light.
But the troubles in this world have become overwhelming. I can only think of a handful of periods in human history when humans weren't fighting. Why do we fight? Why are there always conflicts?
That was the opening, this is my opinion. I fear that every hundred or so years a new power rises, gains ultimate control and collapses in all its glory. It happenes to the Babylonians, it happened to the Romans, to the Ottomans, to the British, and to many other empires that no one thought would ever fall.
You know what I'm getting at. Why should the great american power be any different. America will notalways be the most influential nation. It is for this reason alone that the US must do what no other super power before it has done. Follow this guideline "Be nice to people on you're way up, because you will meet them again on your way down".
I'm no psychic but something tells me that the next World War will be centered in the Middle East. I feel that the muslim nation, a population of 1 billion people or roughly 20% of this planets total population, has felt too much ignored. but I also think that the allegiances in the next World War will be vastly different from the previous ones. Who knows maybe the US will shed the expense of the costly Israel, and join what I believe to be a more concious path.
Check out this article from AlJazeera:
"In Germany, the Nazis first came for the communists, and I did not speak up, because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak up, because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak up, because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I did not speak up, because I was not a Catholic. Then they came for me... and by that time, there was no one to speak up for anyone.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
The world thanks you"
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