Foreign Policy: Think About It

clipmarks on May 8th, 2007 filed in Politics

We can’t gain respect by disrespecting others.

We can’t create democracy without a belief in the inherent equality of others, and without a belief in the rights of others.

We can’t gain trust, by making promises we can’t keep, and by breaking promises to rebuild and to protect.

We can’t ask for ethics in others, when we ourselves lack ethics and integrity.

We can’t gain understanding, without understanding others. Many in our government and many of the presidential candidates, don’t know the difference between a Sunni and a Shi’ite, and know virtually nothing about the beliefs of Muslims.

We can’t gain unity, by sowing seeds of disunity, through the walls we build, and by taking sides and creating an us-against-them mentality.

We can’t gain long-term gain, through continuous short-term mistakes.

We can’t gain positive world opinion, by ignoring the world opinion of others.

We can’t gain good will, by creating ill will.

Clipped from www.huffingtonpost.com

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