History in the making?

[marilena_r]

There is a poll in the Newsweek website with the following question:
Should the United States seek the help of Iran and Syria in order to fix Iraq?
And there was an article with the title:
Iran reacts favorably to the Baker-Hamilton Plan.
I add to this mixture the Pope's ambition to unify all religions (Mr. Sfekas told us that this might be history in

Comments

[autobeast]

I have no idea either and it isn't factoring in hardliners in all circles. We live in interesting times.

[marilena_r]

What do you mean by "factoring in hardliners"? I have never heard the expression before.

[autobeast]

Sorry, speaking in US political jargon. I mean that there are elements in each aspect of the above mentioned events and movements that are "Fundamentalist" or "Extremist" in their assumptions that could influence any of the aboved mentioned things negatively.

[marilena_r]

Yeah, it makes sense. I want to believe though that the effects will not be all negative... It is frightening.

[autobeast]

Well, the tendency towards fundamentalist thought seems to have scared people--look at the US, the fundamentalist influence on US politics got rebuked in the last election, now, most of the politicians are not libertarians or liberals, but moderate Democrats, but it was change from an increasing Dominionist (Protestant Christian theocrat) influnece on the Republican party. So I don't know.

I want to have hope, but I want my hope based in reality.

[marilena_r]

This is a case where fear is necessary... But yes. Let's have hope. Reality is harsh but we are not alone.