08-12-2020, 04:53 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-12-2020, 05:41 AM by Bob Butler 54.)
(08-11-2020, 10:27 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote:(08-11-2020, 09:20 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: A second difference is that Gandhi and Martin Luther King proved non violence could transform the culture without a crisis war, and that awakenings though protest, non-violence and legislation could transform a culture.
That's news to me. Mahatma Gandhi led India into the 1947 Partition war between Muslims and Hindus, possibly the largest and bloodiest battle of the 20th century.
Not surprised that it is news to you. You really ought to familiarize yourself with history.
Not all conflicts between civilizations are best solved by non violence. Some are. The lack or presence of violence in one conflict does not imply other conflicts will be the same. Thus, you have Martin Luther King's civil right's movement occurring at the same time as the Vietnam War. Thus you have navy ships demonstrating against China at the same time as the Black Lives Matter demonstrations occur.
To understand recent history, you have to be aware of both.
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.
