What if our response to Assad's horrific abuses was to welcome his victims into our country, rather than locking them into a room with their tormenter and then dropping 100 grenades in through the air ducts?
Here's a strategy: War is the bluntest dumbest most costly tool humanity has ever invented, and we should use it almost never, instead of first and always and constantly.
Here's a strategy: Any time a president uses the military the assumption should be that means something went terribly wrong.
He should have to present a report as to why we had to use force, and what mistake led us to this, and how we plan to prevent future similar mistakes.
He should have to present a report as to why we had to use force, and what mistake led us to this, and how we plan to prevent future similar mistakes.
Here's a strategy: If we spent all our time and energy on getting Assad's victims out of harm's way & placed safely in our country, it would cost billions less than our military actions there, and would eventually turn a profit as we gained the economic benefit of their presence.
Here's an idea: A bomb creates, save for an extremely brief tactical advantage, nothing but explosions and corpses and the need for more bombs, and we should stop celebrating their use.
And we should ask what we did with our extremely brief tactical advantage.
And we should ask what we did with our extremely brief tactical advantage.
Every use of military force and explosive ordinance should be presumed to have arisen from a terrible mistake.
Every proposal for same should be greeted with similar skepticism.
We should always look for some other better solution. Particularly when obvious ones exist.
Every proposal for same should be greeted with similar skepticism.
We should always look for some other better solution. Particularly when obvious ones exist.
We would be a safer better world if our reaction to every military engagement were the same as our reaction to suddenly pooping our pants.
How disgusting.
Why did we do it? Was there a good reason? If so, what was it?
How could this have been prevented?
How disgusting.
Why did we do it? Was there a good reason? If so, what was it?
How could this have been prevented?
Could we have instead have used our resources and ingenuity to get people out of harms way?
Could we have been more generous?
More welcoming to strangers in need?
Less fearful of the unknown?
Could we have risked something to save something?
Could we have been more generous?
More welcoming to strangers in need?
Less fearful of the unknown?
Could we have risked something to save something?
Maybe the way you isolate a violent madman isn't with violence.
Maybe the way you isolate a violent madman is by saving those he'd kill.
Maybe the way you isolate him is by making a world where he's the only violent one.
A violent madman understands bombs.
Maybe the way you isolate a violent madman is by saving those he'd kill.
Maybe the way you isolate him is by making a world where he's the only violent one.
A violent madman understands bombs.
Stop living by the sword, and stop dying on it
Force only when utterly necessary, and only after deliberation, and only with very specific and temporary goals, which always involve protection
Force always with a sense of failure that we couldn't avoid it
So that's a strategy
Force only when utterly necessary, and only after deliberation, and only with very specific and temporary goals, which always involve protection
Force always with a sense of failure that we couldn't avoid it
So that's a strategy
Not suggesting we move the whole population of Syria to Vermont, rather a change from our military-first, military-exclusive orientation to problem naming and problem solving.
Our closed-door policy to Syrian refugees is a symptom of our bad orientation.
Our closed-door policy to Syrian refugees is a symptom of our bad orientation.
Can you imagine what might happen? We might have mass shootings at public events, people driving cars into crowds ...
Hard to imagine an America with those sorts of problems
Hard to imagine an America with those sorts of problems
