I found myself, on Martin Luther King day, wishing that MLK was still around, that his eloquence and strength of thinking ruled the day as opposed to a man who has trouble stringing sentences together.
Our great decider has gone from talking about non-partisan cooperation (Nov. 8) to the Democrats can try to stop me, but I'm doing what I'm going to do. (Jan. 14, a paraphrase of his reported appearance on 60 Minutes.)
Can we not have a debate here?
Can we not give diplomacy a shot? MUST we alienate Syria and Iran?
Can we not take the best of our American minds on the subject and craft a solution that does not waste those American lives -- and Iraqi lives -- already lost, that does not continue on the same seeminly failed path we have been travelling, that combines rational listening with firm action, that supports and respects others who are different?
I am dismayed to tell the truth.
I believe in peace. I believe in non-violence. I believe MLK and Gandhi have had better answers than, say, Hitler and Mussolini. I do believe that we have gotten ourselves in such a jam that a simplistic solution of pulling out now may not make be the answer.
But I sure wish we could encourage our president to listen to new people, new thoughts. Why he wouldn't even listen to James Baker, fellow Texan and one of Daddy's boys.
How can we get W to listen?
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Thoughts?