Read the whole blog & the articles (s)he refers to here.
Example: Vietnam "Conflict"
"let’s look at a group of protesters who thought they had failed. The protests within the United States against the Vietnam War couldn’t prevent it killing three million Vietnamese and 80,000 Americans. But even in the years it was “failing”, it was achieving more than the protesters could possibly have known.In 1966, the specialists at the Pentagon went to US President Lyndon Johnson – a thug prone to threatening to “crush” entire elected governments – with a plan to end the Vietnam War: nuke the country. They “proved”, using their computer modeling, that a nuclear attack would “save lives.” It was a plan that might well have appealed to him. But Johnson pointed out the window, towards the hoardes of protesters, and said: “I have one more problem for your computer. Will you feed into it how long it will take 500,000 angry Americans to climb the White House wall out there and lynch their President?” He knew that there would be a cost – in protest and democratic revolt – that made that cruelty too great. ... Those protesters went home from those protests believing they had failed – but they had succeeded in preventing a nuclear war. They thought they were impotent, just as so many of us do – but they really had power beyond their dreams to stop a nightmare."
So thank you to all who were able to attend the Rally to Restore Sanity/Fear; we do need to chill out, be more moderate and give in to reasonable compromise to keep our country safe and at peace.
*Note- if you've seen the 1999 movie Dick (a more comical look at Nixon & the Watergate scandal than the excellent drama of 1976's All the President's Men), you would know that peace talks were made between Nixon and General Secertary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhev. What made these sit downs successful? The chilled out, we're all on this Earth together feeling provided by some "special" baked goods made for relaxed compromise and a friendly outlook and attitude. Can't we all get along? Another thing Green can do for you.
