The missing link. (Letters).THANK YOU FOR the unmuddled thinking in Peter Ackerman Peter Ackerman is the founding chair of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict and the managing director of Rockport Capital Incorporated. He was born on November 6 1946 in New York City, New York. As an undergraduate he attended Colgate University. and Jack DuVall's article on how to defeat Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein (born April 28, 1937, Tikrit, Iraq—died Dec. 30, 2006, Baghdad) President of Iraq (1979–2003). He joined the Ba'th Party in 1957. Following participation in a failed attempt to assassinate Iraqi Pres. without a violent war ("With Weapons of the Will," September-October 2002). The strategic nonviolence they espouse is both practical and consistent with our highest Christian values The term Christian values usually refers to the values the speaker feels represent those found in the teachings of Christ as described in parts of the United States. The biblical teachings of Christ include Biblical collection of religious teachings and ethical sayings attributed to Jesus, as reported in the Gospel of St. Matthew. The sermon was addressed to disciples and a large crowd of listeners to guide them in a life of discipline based on a new law of and realpolitik realpolitik Politics based on practical objectives rather than on ideals. The word does not mean “real” in the English sense but rather connotes “things”—hence a politics of adaptation to things as they are. . As the authors mention briefly in several historical sketches, similar dictators have been ousted before with relatively limited resources and training. Who knows what we might accomplish if we put even a small fraction of our military, financial, and human resources into nonviolent activism. We are limited primarily by lack of public awareness and imagination. I propose that the ideas in this article be fleshed out in great detail for Iraq and sent to policy makers (especially those who see the folly in a unilateral war), from Congress to the Army's War College. Beyond that we need more documentaries of historical successes of strategic nonviolence and some feature-length thriller movies depicting how it could work in dangerous places around the world today. John Reuwer Radford, Virginia |
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