Astonishingly it appears
the UK parliament has done something sensible and voted not to bomb Syria in a
futile show of 'strength'.
Terrible as events there undoubtedly are it is generally foolish to get
involved in a war that you want neither side to win. While whatever depraved
thinking resulted in the release of chemical weapons it really is most unclear
what random missile strikes were likely to achieve. It really is a major
issue that world leaders can find themselves end-played by previous statements
into feeling compelled to either launch missiles or appear weak and
feckless.
What Syria and
the rest of the world badly needs is a global strategy that lays out
acceptable behaviour and plans for the future. The divided
nations meeting in New York will almost certainly never achieve
this. However social networking software just might! We need to
actively pursue how to get this working quickly so the global consensus drives
decisions rather than the interests of individual nations and their
political leaders. This may in time allow the world to change focus from
the long term survival of nations which appears to take priority at the
moment to the long term survival of people which we consider far more
important.
We have not done a
scientific survey however our expectation remains that if you asked a
sample of people whether they would prefer their country or themselves to
survive for the next thousand years then their country would come a
rather distant second in the poll. The issue we have at the moment is
that the vast majority do not believe living for 1000 years will be
possible within their lifetime, and it all starts with belief.
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