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This article is a beautiful article - focusing on the best of humanity and seeking to bridge religious and spiritual divides with understanding and commonalities, yet it leaves out one thing - the structural motivations of people - which in my opinion are actually far more important to understand. Doing so takes us out of looking at just a person and looking at a person in a given context. This is absolutely critical. The question I believe we need to ask today is what is the prevailing context?

I wanted to first however respond to one thing you said:
"...we don't need the kind of hawks that are money-hungry war mongers on the extreme right;"

So I want to ask what contributes to this comment?

Let's break it down:

hawks -

"The Defense Budget is 3 quarters of a trillion dollars. Profits went up last year by 25%. When war becomes that profitable you are going to see more of it."
"We have got an empire. There is no excuse for 725 military bases in 130 foreign countries;"
- Chalmers Johnson (CIA, 1967-1973)

money-hungry - The ONLY Legal Responsibility of Corporations is make shareholders profits

If Jesus Christ himself ran a corporation and it was cheaper to outsource jobs to China or India - HE WOULD BE REQUIRED TO DO SO

war mongers - Might Makes Right (Let's make the USA the next Rome)
extreme - People who believe the ends justify the means

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Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense so that security and liberty may prosper together."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961 - farewell address

Now that this has been said, this sets the stage for the rest of this comment. The structure or context, that people live in is directly related to what they do because the environment places certain rewards and punishments on various behaviors. In the case of the quick analysis I did regarding the statement above, it is clear that there is a slant or tilt to go to war and if the circumstances are right - if WE are asleep at the wheel - then it WILL happen (this is what Eisenhower warned us about and WHY the movie "Why We Fight" is built around Eisenhower's statements). In other words, unless we stop it, it's only a matter of time before we go to war with Iran (they don't have nuclear weapons and they are a thorn in our side strategically so that is the next place to flex our power to the world - much like Rome did) - it simply is just too profitable and the

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