RE: The Third Hundred Years War Has 86 To Go
September 14, 2017 at 2:11 pm
(This post was last modified: September 14, 2017 at 2:16 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Our willingness to intervene and possibly fail at great expense to ourselves is both the cost of doing business and a neccessity of intervening on behalf of others not endowed with what would be required to even -attempt- improvement in their conditions.
I;m not, in this, disputing the failure of a given intervention, or strategy of intervention. No amount of pointing to those things is relevant to my own position on this issue. I can;t see how we -could- successfully intervene if we ignore or intentional omit reference to our failures. I'm simply suggesting that the malaise these failures brings about does not actually support the passive defeatism which it produces. Doing nothing will not improve their future or our own. It is not the solution to the problem of how we've done something the wrong way. It's an attempt to banish our frustrations. They will not go away, even if we do.
I;m not, in this, disputing the failure of a given intervention, or strategy of intervention. No amount of pointing to those things is relevant to my own position on this issue. I can;t see how we -could- successfully intervene if we ignore or intentional omit reference to our failures. I'm simply suggesting that the malaise these failures brings about does not actually support the passive defeatism which it produces. Doing nothing will not improve their future or our own. It is not the solution to the problem of how we've done something the wrong way. It's an attempt to banish our frustrations. They will not go away, even if we do.
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