FTAC

In retrospect, the optimism is testament to human resilience, which we may feel good about, but the work within a conflict-and-development context is to get in the way of malignant and dangerous social movements –whether behavioral, ideological, or religious — and stem their costs before they exact an awful price.

If that view is shared, it’s very modern and somewhat writerly (I can create a good story out of a bad situation in script, but I can’t actually fix a bad reality except by offering a few thoughts with hopes some might be relevant and useful). It asks that those involved in something happening see themselves in something happening as if it were taking place outside of themselves and they were looking in– and then return to circumstance to make changes and evolve.

My positions about to get hit by a storm or dramatic winds off the same, so I’m going to take a break here.

The prompt (“FTAC” — “From the Awesome Conversation” — on Facebook”) came with the note that Hitler was a problem too, and he was defeated.

Sigh.

Would any Englishman or German today, descendant, not wish the whole thing hadn’t happened?

Perhaps the Jews.  Zionism actually took off in the 19th Century, long before WWI and WWII, and the Jews were resident already on the land (please visit http://www.meforum.org/522/the-smoking-gun-arab-immigration-into-palestine – 2003), but in the influx from the Holocaust and (800,000+) from the persecution in surroundingArab states certainly helped put Jewry back in Eretz Israel.

I have a trope about Hitler and the Jews:

To the Jew, the Nazi is a problem.  However, the Nazi’s problem is not the Jew’s problem.

And that’s the way it is, Nazis or Hamas, Syrians (in general) and Bashar al-Assad.

President al-Assad has a problem he cannot fix, or so far has failed to fix.

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