Friday, January 23, 2009

Moving Toward Peace

Last night my husband was speculating on what "the terriorist groups" were going to do now that President Obama is making changes to foreign policy. I said they aren't going to do anything but fade away, because how can you muster up enough anger in people against the U.S. when the U.S. is being kind and humane. I guess I was trying to say that Obama is killing them with kindness. He then said but they have all these other issues with christians and jews etc. I still think the main thing that propels their cause forward and keeps youth joining is the anger against the acts the U.S. has committed in the past few years. Bush has given them someone to hate. Hate is what creates the ugly thing we call terrorism. If we take the hate away and replace it with kindness, their followers will diminish, their power will fade away. Then my husband wondered if the terrorists even exist to the extent that we've been told and whether they are simply like the weapons of mass destruction Bush never found in Iraq.
I think Obama is truly trying to "usher in a new era of peace." Whether the rest of the world will accept the outstreched hand, I don't know. What I am sure of is that we are doing the right thing. And because of that I can sleep at night and I can feel sure that we are passing on the right values to our children.

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