Fairness

Think for a minute about the world around you. Can you support your family? Can you protect your family? Is your voice heard?

If you answered 'no' to most of those questions then you would have a legitimate complaint. It would be perfectly reasonable for you to oppose the power structures around you and push for change.

Most of the people outside of the western world answer 'no' to all three of those questions.

Think about that for a minute. They are having an extraordinarily difficult time providing for their families. They cannot protect their families. And their voices are not being heard.

It is no wonder that the terrorists are finding safe haven and support. Most non-westerners should be supporting the terrorists, except that they have homes that western armies can bomb so they must keep their support hidden. That is what I would do if I were in their shoes. And it is what you would do, too.

I only see two options, and one of them is so unbelievably horrible that no good person could possibly support it. We can either kill them all or we can start listening to them and start helping them find ways to protect and provide for their families. Between those two extremes there is nothing but continual bloodshed. In fact the choices are really between fast genocide, slow torturous genocide, and peace.

I know that there are other issues. There is a dispute over land in Palestine and Israel, and this dispute is not going away. But think about this dispute for a moment--Israelis with guns and missiles fighting against Palestinians with rocks and suicide bombers. How would the dispute change if every Palestinian and every Israeli woke up tomorrow morning and truly felt that their families were safe, they would be able to provide for their families, and their concerns in the dispute would be heard? Can you imagine such a day.

I can imagine it. I am working towards it. In a word, I call it Fairness.

We have to replace armies with police.

We have to start listening, and actually take action to open up markets and do whatever the non-westerners need in order to feel safe and provide for their families.

We have to convince them that they have to reduce the corruption in their own governments before they can make any real progress towards prosperity. And by convince, I do not mean invade and overthrow or coerce with economic sanctions.

I ask myself this question: "What would I do if the Palestinians, Ethiopians, Saudis, Egyptians, and all the rest were my own beloved children?" What would you do? You would change the social and economic power structures to make the playing field fair to them. That is what you would do. That is what I will do.