Foreign Policy is not supposed to be ironic...
Foreign Policy is not supposed to be ironic...
People live up to and down to the labels that others give them. If you call someone fat, stupid, ugly; they sometimes begin to think they are, or act like that and sometimes they do both. The power of suggestion is very inherent in people.
So when you label a nation as “evil” or “third world” they see themselves as such, and so do you. And while proclaiming a nation to be 3rd world, while yours is 1st world may not seem like such a big deal. Labeling a nation as “EVIL” has devastating effects on how other nations interact with that nation, for one: It creates divisions between the nations and arises an mentality like “Us versus them”, and secondly, they become more “evil”, they do the exact same things that you label them as being. They proliferate, and that label radicalizes the moderate citizens in that country, and adds more ammunition for the extremists.
How we view and see people in our minds is a direct reflection on how we treat them. Mindset always precedes action.
Think of every nation in history that the United States or any other nation has called Evil. By attaching that label, they are instantly transformed into more of an ideal, instead of a nation or a people. Think of the U.S.S.R., Germany, and Japan.
-- On a side note, any person who labels anything whether, as an absolute or not, in any sense of that word or concept, is either hurting themselves or hurting others, and those actions always have ramifications.
The reason that I bring this up, is because if you roll back the clock to the year 2003, you hear the names of the countries in the, “AXIS OF EVIL” (IRAN, IRAQ, and NORTH KOREA) and you read the headlines today in 2006, you hear how Bush and Blair, are reaching out to Syria, and Iran to solve the “Iraq Problem” Are you serious? These were are sworn hated enemies, and now they are own allies?
--The defiance of Iran as it test fired its missiles while the world watched, its aggressive race for nuclear proliferation?
-- Syria’s support and supplying of Hizbollah?
And now we are seeking their help and attention with our “problem”?
The problem with labels is that you can’t take them back, as the U.S. and U.K. (I’m sure) will learn when members of the “Axis of Evil” turn down their requests or are offered “incentives” to wipe the slate clean.
So in the future while these nations continue to act more “Evil”, the world will be an even darker, and more dangerous place, ever-supporting this trend since 2000.
-- Check out this article, it’s an interesting read.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article1981732.ece
Peace.
People live up to and down to the labels that others give them. If you call someone fat, stupid, ugly; they sometimes begin to think they are, or act like that and sometimes they do both. The power of suggestion is very inherent in people.
So when you label a nation as “evil” or “third world” they see themselves as such, and so do you. And while proclaiming a nation to be 3rd world, while yours is 1st world may not seem like such a big deal. Labeling a nation as “EVIL” has devastating effects on how other nations interact with that nation, for one: It creates divisions between the nations and arises an mentality like “Us versus them”, and secondly, they become more “evil”, they do the exact same things that you label them as being. They proliferate, and that label radicalizes the moderate citizens in that country, and adds more ammunition for the extremists.
How we view and see people in our minds is a direct reflection on how we treat them. Mindset always precedes action.
Think of every nation in history that the United States or any other nation has called Evil. By attaching that label, they are instantly transformed into more of an ideal, instead of a nation or a people. Think of the U.S.S.R., Germany, and Japan.
-- On a side note, any person who labels anything whether, as an absolute or not, in any sense of that word or concept, is either hurting themselves or hurting others, and those actions always have ramifications.
The reason that I bring this up, is because if you roll back the clock to the year 2003, you hear the names of the countries in the, “AXIS OF EVIL” (IRAN, IRAQ, and NORTH KOREA) and you read the headlines today in 2006, you hear how Bush and Blair, are reaching out to Syria, and Iran to solve the “Iraq Problem” Are you serious? These were are sworn hated enemies, and now they are own allies?
--The defiance of Iran as it test fired its missiles while the world watched, its aggressive race for nuclear proliferation?
-- Syria’s support and supplying of Hizbollah?
And now we are seeking their help and attention with our “problem”?
The problem with labels is that you can’t take them back, as the U.S. and U.K. (I’m sure) will learn when members of the “Axis of Evil” turn down their requests or are offered “incentives” to wipe the slate clean.
So in the future while these nations continue to act more “Evil”, the world will be an even darker, and more dangerous place, ever-supporting this trend since 2000.
-- Check out this article, it’s an interesting read.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article1981732.ece
Peace.
posted by Alphaprimer at
11/13/2006 06:49:00 PM
2 Comments:
Despite forging ahead into the war in Iraq without UN support, and certainly without the support of neighbouring nations, NOW they want help.
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