Enboldening the Enemy
07/April/2007 01:57 Filed in: War and
Peace
The
Republican administration keeps saying that speaking
out against the war and the administration "emboldens
the enemy." Nothing could be further from the truth.
Actually it does just the opposite. Consider for a
moment that we learned that the majority of people in
another country was against their administration's
hawkish decisions. Would we feel more or less
inclined to drop bombs on these people? Speaking out
actually tells them we are not all warmongers and
that many of us want peace. These creates softer
feelings toward our people and not harder. Only one
thing "emboldens" and enemy: killing them and their
families. That makes people pretty mad from
generation to generation.