07-12-2018, 10:06 PM
In Syria, each group fighting seems to be advocating for their own ethnic, religious or political group. They each have found external allies enough to not be defeated and keep fighting, but not enough to win.
Now, the Enlightenment favored toleration of alien groups. If someone hates due to politics, religion or race, they are the bad guys, they are showing prejudice. We can daydream about tolerance, but it remains a daydream. Those seeking power seek the power to suppress some other group.
Now we seem to be fighting terrorism. How do you fight a tactic? We are good to fight a conventional war with tanks and front lines, so we begrudge those enemies who avoid such things, and red coats as part of uniforms. But there is a lot of targeting the opponents will to fight, which is what terrorism is in the long term.
I for one do not anticipate a failure of the will to fight, an identification with the group, an affiliation with the like any time soon.
Now, the Enlightenment favored toleration of alien groups. If someone hates due to politics, religion or race, they are the bad guys, they are showing prejudice. We can daydream about tolerance, but it remains a daydream. Those seeking power seek the power to suppress some other group.
Now we seem to be fighting terrorism. How do you fight a tactic? We are good to fight a conventional war with tanks and front lines, so we begrudge those enemies who avoid such things, and red coats as part of uniforms. But there is a lot of targeting the opponents will to fight, which is what terrorism is in the long term.
I for one do not anticipate a failure of the will to fight, an identification with the group, an affiliation with the like any time soon.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.