Two Ways of Viewing the World by Edwin Young

Two Ways of Viewing the Rest of the World from January 20 On
by Edwin Young

With the first way of viewing, the world is full of potentially, friendly nations and people.

With the second way of viewing, the world is full of potential enemies.

The first eventually tends to create friends.

The second eventually tends to create enemies. The second leads to a build-up of the military and defense corporations and drains the economy.

The second has led to the US being militarily stronger than all other nations.

This has led to a tendency to act as though the US has the prerogative to bully other nations.

This has led to the posture of criticizing other nations and to try to get them to comply with demands for changes that favor the US.

This posture has led to the US having a habit of pointing, with impunity, the blame finger at other nations.

Ironically the US points the blame finger at other nations for exactly those policies and behaviors for which the US is the most egregiously guilty of all.

Our new president and the new legislature must make a deliberate effort to reverse this trend. The US must even make this effort ostentatious in broadcasts to other nations so that they can see our change of posture and policy and hold us to our word.

This change can be a first step toward opening friendly discussion and mutually supportive consensus building with other nations.

This change can open the way for all nations to begin assuming the first, the friendly, way of viewing each other.

The world will gradually come to follow the friendly way.