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Obvious
turning Points in Recent History: Blind
idealism is incredible destructive. It
may look and sound good in the short run, but in the
long term (which is what matters most) it's
setting one's self up for deep
trouble. How
many times have you seen this
internal programming (this belief
system) displayed and reinforced in your
mind by the American cinema? The good guy is
displayed as a lily-white compassionate who would
never do as the bad guy does.
He has
the bad guy defeated and has only to fire the last
shot or let go of the rope and the bad guy is dead
and gone forever. Instead the hero lets
the bad guy live and later in the film, the villain
pulls off still another destructive stunt like
coming back to kill the hero .
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Two
Historical Examples:
Recent
history gives us two, now-all-too-obvious, examples
of this incredibly-blind, short-term-gain,
long-term-loss stupidity on the part of an American
President. First,
at the close of the second world war, President Truman had the
power to completely eliminate Joseph Stalin and
Russian Communism in a matter of a few
weeks. The same thing could then have
been done in china in the weeks after that. The entire world
could have been turned democratic in less than one
year. As
you well know, in a war, superior
technology overpowers the adversary, and vastly
superior technology is simply
undefeatable. In 1945, President Truman
could have simply said to the Russian people,
eliminate Stalin or Russian cities will start
disappearing. He could have directed the
military to take some of the Russian leaders to
Hiroshima, Japan, show them first hand the power
they were facing and and then said to
them, eliminate Stalin, create a democratic
political system in all of Russia or Moscow
disappears like Hiroshima just did. The
second example is George Bush senior and his decision to
leave Saddam Hussein in Power in Iraq in the 1990-1
Gulf War. The American military forces
could have simply surrounded Baghdad and announced
that Hussein was about to be eliminated and the Bathe party
was about to be purged of criminal, renamed, and
revamped to support the people. He could have then
invited the Iraqi military,
to enter Baghdad and remove Hussein.
With Hussein and his closest henchmen gone,
democratic practices could have been installed with
relative ease.
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A
third somewhat similar example comes from John
McCain, a man who
could have been president in 2000. In
2000, McCain was a highly popular, independent-thinking war hero who was adamant on campaign
reforms. When he lost the primary to
Bush who was adamantly anti-reform, McCain had the
opportunity to run as an independent saying to the
Republicans, "You have a choice, pass
legislation for major campaign reform right now or I'll run as
and independent and either I or Al Gore will be the
next president, but I can guarantee the George Bush
will not. Pass campaign reform laws and
provide public
funding of all national candidates and I'll
drop out and support the Republican party. I
bring in the McCain issue because McCain is one of
the leaders in the blind idealism that refuses to
deal with Al Queda and the Taliban.
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