Thank you for your thoughtful response to a piece that I have yet to read, but seemingly understand the gist of through a number of reactions that I have read.
I take an entirely different view from both you and Mr. Beinart and that is that unfortunately we are at an incredible place in history, even more significant than our times during the cold war and possibly even more significant than any time in human history. The war I speak of involves multi-national corporations essentially against people (extreme capitalism vs. extreme islam [for now]).
I struggle with how this might be commonly articulated, but just as you have seen success with your site due to people needing and wanting a separate view from our corporate controlled media, so to do our fellow humans in the Sudan, Middle East, China/Taiwan, Russia and the Ukraine want a refocusing on people as opposed to profits. In effect a refocusing on our land and fellow man as an invaluable resource and partner instead of a tool.
The examples where our own extremities have failed or are going to fail are all around us, in the healthcare crisis that we are facing where basic services are being denied, to retirement fund privatization, to the destruction of our very environment and fellow species.
We need to revisit what a commodity is and work to provide that to all people/species and then allow our great idea of free markets to help us with the rest. We need to confront openly and honestly together what building of highly destructive military gear does (what originally is built perhaps for defense quickly turns into something, as it gets older and out of date, screaming for any usage at all). If we do not we will not only lose the ‘terror war’, but most anything else humanity needs to continue living.
I take an entirely different view from both you and Mr. Beinart and that is that unfortunately we are at an incredible place in history, even more significant than our times during the cold war and possibly even more significant than any time in human history. The war I speak of involves multi-national corporations essentially against people (extreme capitalism vs. extreme islam [for now]).
I struggle with how this might be commonly articulated, but just as you have seen success with your site due to people needing and wanting a separate view from our corporate controlled media, so to do our fellow humans in the Sudan, Middle East, China/Taiwan, Russia and the Ukraine want a refocusing on people as opposed to profits. In effect a refocusing on our land and fellow man as an invaluable resource and partner instead of a tool.
The examples where our own extremities have failed or are going to fail are all around us, in the healthcare crisis that we are facing where basic services are being denied, to retirement fund privatization, to the destruction of our very environment and fellow species.
We need to revisit what a commodity is and work to provide that to all people/species and then allow our great idea of free markets to help us with the rest. We need to confront openly and honestly together what building of highly destructive military gear does (what originally is built perhaps for defense quickly turns into something, as it gets older and out of date, screaming for any usage at all). If we do not we will not only lose the ‘terror war’, but most anything else humanity needs to continue living.
