With only the foregoing brief sketch it should be clear that international security instruments in general and arms control in particular cannot meaningfully contribute to generating Peace in Abrahamic Civilization during its continuing Bronze Age. Therefore, high priority must be assigned to ending the Bronze Age while treating secular ideologies of war and oppression. That requires introducing the Ideologic (EYE dee oh LOW jic) dimension (ID) into national and international affairs. These matters are developed further in the brief book ENDING THE BRONZE AGE -- which the reader can peruse via the direct link http://bronze-age.us . Those compact 72 pages summarize the PRINCIPIA, apply it to a case, and thereby provide the essential principles and methods for obtaining genuine PEACE -- for the first time in hominid history. Essential reading in a state of Bronze Age Modernity during the Era of Catastrophic Terrorism.
The ?logics? of Ideologics comes from ?Logos,? as in John 1.1 of the New Testament, ?In the beginning was the Word.? In the original Greek ?Word? was ?Logos? -- meaning Idea and the manifestation of Idea.
The primary threat we face in that Era is from nuclear bombs -- not just radiological, or ?dirty bombs? -- but most especially the kind that obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Some designs are easily made, others easily stolen or bought, and smuggled into or dropped onto American cities and ports and critical telecommunications, industrial, financial, energy, and defense facilities and centers. A one-page outline of the problem, and of the principles and practices for its solution, is provided by the online paper NUCLEAR THREAT AND PREVENTION, which includes links to further material. It can be read and printed out at terror2.com: http://terror2.com .
That paper makes clear that we are fighting a war only against terror -- not against terrorism -- which involves ideology. Bin Laden made this clear in a taped speech broadcast on 3 November 2001 by the Al Jazeera Arab satellite channel based in Qatar: ?This is a matter of religion and creed. It is not what Bush and Blair maintain, that it is a war against terrorism. There is no way to forget the hostility between us and the infidels. It is ideological.?
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has come to realize that full well. Speaking before a Labour Party policy forum in London on 6 July 2005 he declared, ?What we are confronting here is an evil ideology?a religious ideology, a strain within the worldwide religion of Islam?It is a global struggle . And it is a battle of ideas and hearts and minds, both within Islam and outside it. This is the battle we must win.?
The fundamental resource for fighting that battle, which provides the essential perspectives, principles and weapons, is the compact 81-page tract TERROR WAR AND PEACE: With De-Sanctification of Jihad. It waits in the wings unadvertised on amazon.com, waiting for the situation to get desperate enough for the infidel world to catch up with it. This is not Islamophobia; it is Islamorealism. It works directly from the Qur?an itself, and from classical and modern Koranic scholarship. It can be perused on amazon.com via the direct link terror1.com: http://terror1.com It will be a both-eyes opener to nearly all readers.
It would be well to note further that that is not bigotry against people and their religion, but is, rather, a matter of defensive war-fighting, requiring in accordance with Ideologic Defense, attacking and nullifying an adversary?s ideology. One of this writer?s closest associates on major matters is by his choice, based on superior merit, a Pakistani Muslim.
As you will see, the nature of the problem and its resolution?s principles and operations cannot be left to government. They must be implemented by the private sector: by NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) and you. You can begin by passing the word -- of this message -- and the web address that got you here.
For, this is about far more than how to win World War IV. It is about how to prevent as well as fight wars in general, in the tradition of Sun Tzu?s 500 B.C. classic THE ART OF WAR: ?For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.?
We must go beyond merely putting out fires, at great cost in lives and treasure,
to putting out the incendiary ideologies that light them
As called for by the famous phrase in the Charter of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO): ?Since Wars Begin In The Minds Of Men It Is In The Minds Of Men That The Defenses Of Peace Must Be Constructed.?
As called for by Hobbes? definition of Warre. And by John 1.1?s focus on Logos.
This is also about combatting racism, religionism, ethnicism and all manner of malignant ideologies of oppression. And about building genuine Peace -- for the first time in hominid history.
Where there is no vision, the people perish. -- Proverbs 29.18
© Copyright 2005 by Stephen Edward Seadler
(Editor's Note: I am presenting this piece at the author's request and with his full permission).
The ?logics? of Ideologics comes from ?Logos,? as in John 1.1 of the New Testament, ?In the beginning was the Word.? In the original Greek ?Word? was ?Logos? -- meaning Idea and the manifestation of Idea.
The primary threat we face in that Era is from nuclear bombs -- not just radiological, or ?dirty bombs? -- but most especially the kind that obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Some designs are easily made, others easily stolen or bought, and smuggled into or dropped onto American cities and ports and critical telecommunications, industrial, financial, energy, and defense facilities and centers. A one-page outline of the problem, and of the principles and practices for its solution, is provided by the online paper NUCLEAR THREAT AND PREVENTION, which includes links to further material. It can be read and printed out at terror2.com: http://terror2.com .
That paper makes clear that we are fighting a war only against terror -- not against terrorism -- which involves ideology. Bin Laden made this clear in a taped speech broadcast on 3 November 2001 by the Al Jazeera Arab satellite channel based in Qatar: ?This is a matter of religion and creed. It is not what Bush and Blair maintain, that it is a war against terrorism. There is no way to forget the hostility between us and the infidels. It is ideological.?
The fundamental resource for fighting that battle, which provides the essential perspectives, principles and weapons, is the compact 81-page tract TERROR WAR AND PEACE: With De-Sanctification of Jihad. It waits in the wings unadvertised on amazon.com, waiting for the situation to get desperate enough for the infidel world to catch up with it. This is not Islamophobia; it is Islamorealism. It works directly from the Qur?an itself, and from classical and modern Koranic scholarship. It can be perused on amazon.com via the direct link terror1.com: http://terror1.com It will be a both-eyes opener to nearly all readers.
It would be well to note further that that is not bigotry against people and their religion, but is, rather, a matter of defensive war-fighting, requiring in accordance with Ideologic Defense, attacking and nullifying an adversary?s ideology. One of this writer?s closest associates on major matters is by his choice, based on superior merit, a Pakistani Muslim.
As you will see, the nature of the problem and its resolution?s principles and operations cannot be left to government. They must be implemented by the private sector: by NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) and you. You can begin by passing the word -- of this message -- and the web address that got you here.
For, this is about far more than how to win World War IV. It is about how to prevent as well as fight wars in general, in the tradition of Sun Tzu?s 500 B.C. classic THE ART OF WAR: ?For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.?
We must go beyond merely putting out fires, at great cost in lives and treasure,
to putting out the incendiary ideologies that light them
As called for by the famous phrase in the Charter of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO): ?Since Wars Begin In The Minds Of Men It Is In The Minds Of Men That The Defenses Of Peace Must Be Constructed.?
As called for by Hobbes? definition of Warre. And by John 1.1?s focus on Logos.
This is also about combatting racism, religionism, ethnicism and all manner of malignant ideologies of oppression. And about building genuine Peace -- for the first time in hominid history.
Where there is no vision, the people perish. -- Proverbs 29.18
© Copyright 2005 by Stephen Edward Seadler
(Editor's Note: I am presenting this piece at the author's request and with his full permission).
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