Re: Jihad

["M. Kolar" <wddm(at)mkolar.org>]

Dear Georges,
   I have still been re-reading and thinking especially about your Jihad page.
How do you for example reconcile your recommendation to use secret services to
solve the world's problems with your claims of organizing workshops seeking
consensus among the Arabs and Jews for 30 years???

   You say "I did not even start to investigate the nature of the conflict."
Shouldn't one start with this investigation before offering solutions???
   I think that the nature of the conflict is clear: it is the remnants of
"tribalism" still prevailing in most countries, which also clearly emanates
from your Pax Americana pages. The inability to see that the people on the
other side of any conflict are the same as your "tribe", they also want to
defend their country, way of life, traditions, do not like being given orders
by others.
   If one looks on it from distance, for example your PLO agent was no worse or
better than you - he also was doing what he thought was the best for his side.
   Then you must arrive at the conclusion that there is no military solution.
Citizen army and police is a good idea, but it should be just a temporary
measure while armed conflict are still continuing. Strictly as a protective
measure for the defence of one's territory, never to be used for "preemptive"
strikes.
   The long-term solution is to eliminate and prevent military conflicts: to
change foreign policy, respect others, do not "civilize" them on your own
terms, do not meddle into the internal matters of others, decentralize, give
local autonomy, transfer huge amounts of means now spent on arms production and
military solutions into peaceful diplomacy, economic cooperation, cultural
exchanges, ....

   Such a different perspective on the questions of war and peace can be found
on my antiwar pages: http://www.mkolar.org/antiwar/

E.g., http://www.mkolar.org/antiwar/discussion_war.html  ends with:

I am an optimist. I hope that a positive product of globalization will be a
world-wide planetary identity. When all the people of the Earth will consider
themselves one big "tribe", there will be nobody left to agitate against, and
nothing else for the warriors than to play some games.

Mirek

P.S. You say:
> Let's remember that opposing government decisions
> in time of war has a name: "treason".
       Every German citizens and then citizens of all the countries occupied
and annexed by Germany (including yourself) who were against Hitler were also
guilty of "treason", right?