Regarding war and peace—the seed of each is planted in the other.
Regarding war and peace—the seeds of each are planted in the other.
All too often, our elegant political theories amount to nothing more than ideology triumphing over common sense.
We live in an age of equivocal competency: if you want, you can be a competent dictator, a competent self-promoter, a competent terrorist. Just because you can do something well does not mean you should be doing it.
Why do the powerful always insist on having a “back story” to justify whatever they do? Why can’t they—just once—do something for the simple reason that it is the right thing to do, in itself, for reasons understood and accepted by all? In politics, laws are passed to secretly serve hidden agendas, for without such agendas many lawmakers would never find the motivation to support anything at all.
We recognize authority based on whether we feel we could attain authority by the rules by which the authority was obtained.
Cooler heads prevail while things spin completely out of control.
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