Get Out and Reach Out: The Iraq War
We are but a tiny spec of a generation. Yet, we are experiencing what could be a pivotal time in mankind’s history. We are at war with a mindset. Using guns, bombs, and occupying their villages, will not end this war. The kind of war we are in, is never won, but only stopped.
Only time, wisdom and communication will bridge a gap and create a meeting of the minds of two different philosophies that need never come head to head, but only mind to mind for us to live peacefully.
During the recent talks about sending 20,000 more young men to combat, I heard several people in the highest positions, including the President, remark that this time, we will stay until they stop attacking and killing innocent people. But each time we increase our presence and then begin to move away, they move right back in. That is because it is not their person that is a threat to us, but a mindset; a philosophy that they have given to their brothers and sisters and children. Ideas grow by giving them away, and killing those who have already given them away, doesn’t work.
Unfortunately, to make Peace our main focus will take as much or more time as it took for the radical Muslims to develop their animosity toward other religious and political ideologies and perhaps as long as it took us to go from being a nation ruled by the people, to one that is subject to their government.
Attempting to kill every last suicide bomber, or radical Muslim, is a futile attempt to control hatred and in the end, it only creates more hatred.
Like it or not, I think we live at time we most likely, will never see real peace on earth; not if our current policies continue. All we can do for now is get out, and then, reach out. Get out of their land, let them be, and protect our own. But never stop sending American’s who know how and are willing to speak to them about our ways, and are truly willing to understand theirs. Where are our Ghandi’s and our Mother Theresa’s in America? Where are our spiritual leaders that help others learn what it takes to have Peace on Earth? Send those who can teach others how to learn to live side by side their brother. If they reach one, single person, behind him are a thousand more.
Americans, not known for their patience, need to learn it. It could take literally hundreds of years, and many will die trying, but they will die trying to bring Peace WITH Peace.
We are a spec of a generation. Let’s leave our mark, by vowing to teach Peace by being Peace. Let’s leave God take care of the rest.
