Winning Hearts and Minds or Feared and Respected?
Many scholars have told the United States that we must win the hearts and the minds of the Muslim People and well in hindsight that was not such good advice now was it? Indeed when someone else is using fear tactics on their own people against you and similar fear tactics against you to protect themselves from their perceived view of your intentions, well obviously that cannot work
Most people fail to understand that unfortunately when cultures are so far apart they do not respect each other in human civilizations; therefore I am not interested in attempting to win the hearts and minds of the people. Because it is impossible when there is a culture clash, instead the next best thing, when love and peace cannot be achieved is to revert back to the easiest way to control peace, by fear. And thus being feared and respected is the second best choice and always a way to fall back when you find your self in a place where it is impossible to get along with people who hate you.
Perhaps we as Americans should stop trying to be so overly out reaching and ditch that notion and instead use the fall back methodology of being feared and respected. It would certainly be nice to be nice, but that is not working, people are dying and well, neither culture is moving forward. Consider all this in 2006.
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