France

First of all; our prayers, condolences, thoughts, etc go to all the people who lost a loved one, or are hoping a loved one survives, to all the people of Paris and France, and anyone else affected by this horrible, atrocious, and cowardly act.

Also our prayers go to all the first responders who are having to work extra and yet suffer along with their country men and women during this tragedy.

You can say words from far away, but I truly hope the people of France can overcome and grow again like they have multiple times in the past from WWII to Charlie Hebdo.

Now there is another insane story developing behind this senseless attack and that is all the politicians and people tweeting something like they have some miracle answer to the problem. No one has the answer and I know I have said this on multiple platforms, you cannot overcome what causes despots, dictators, and whatever ISIS is to exist just by winning a war. If that were the case, the world would have been a wonderful place after WWII.

You do need to fight them and not let whatever existence of evil is existing at the moment to survive, but to really overcome we need to win a fight no one ever tries to fight. The continual rise of the next evil is because we do not attack the root cause of how these situations continue to come back and haunt us. The Middle East unfortunately has been a breeding ground for problems, but there and in other times and places these tyrants exist because they take advantage of poverty, uneducated people to rise to power all the while lashing out at scapegoats so they can use this as an excuse for all the bad things happening to the people.  Right now the West and Western culture is the culprit for groups like Al Qaeda and ISIS.

This happens everywhere though. And unfortunately US policy worldwide sometimes tends to pick the expedient person to back for the multinational corporations instead of taking the harder road and working with the country to help them grow. Which in the long road would still benefit those same multi-national companies for long term business. This has given these current sets of tyrants and despots ammunition against us. We need to change our course. The US though is by no means the cause of tyranny.

People forget no one brought democracy or rule of man to the United States and Western Europe. This was a concept developed over time and we achieved it because men became educated and understood the value of life. It is not a product we can export much as we would like to.

The real growth of democracy and rule of man will come to other areas of the world not because we force it on them or we try to put someone in power, but by developing the people. We need to find ways to overcome the propaganda of local tyrants and start instilling in future generations a desire to learn and  want something more than what they are given. This will not happen overnight and takes a long range approach we have not ever attempted yet is our best opportunity to eventually rid the world of tyranny. This means we cannot put our self-interest above others. And like I mentioned before, if we take the more methodical approach we will actually create more success for everyone in the long run.

Unfortunately until we overcome our own shortcomings, what we truly represent can be twisted by others for their own benefit and we end up with situations where innocent people in France are murdered in not an act of war, but a murderous act by people mislead into believing utter falsehoods.

What isn’t the answer is all our idiot politicians trying to act like they have some answer that we can solve the problem by killing them all or arming all private citizens. And yes going to war and winning war may seem like “oh yeah baby, we sure got them” but sooner or later and most likely sooner another group will come along and replace them using the same tactics they did to get to power. Tactics that rely on bullying the populace, lying about what are the real problems facing them, strong arming the law, keeping them ignorant and poor and then we are back to square one. Yes we can win the next war, but we are losing more in the long run. And also unfortunately we may have to go out and win the next war because these tyrants are like fire ant mounds. You have to eradicate a mound to end the current problem, but until we truly find the root of the problem they will not go away. So for this situation we have to create the long term strategies, which may take generations, to truly see the success we want of ridding our planet of this ongoing cancer upon us as human beings.

I would love to wish everyone a good night, but tonight I wish you a safe night.