"The world is waiting for the grand idea of universal toleration. It will be a great acquisition to civilization. Nay, no civilization can long exist unless this idea enters into it. Nо civilization can grow unless fanaticism, bloodshed and brutality stop. Nо civilization can begin to lift up its head until we look charitably upon one another, and the first step towards that much-needed charity is to look charitably and kindly upon the religious convictions of others. May more, to understand that not only should we be charitable, but positively helpful, to each other, however different our religious ideas and convictions may be". - Vedantic Thought for the Month
Biden
slams Bush for "ignoring" emergence of India, China
Biden
slams Bush for "ignoring" emergence of India, China
Washington,
July 16: Slamming the Bush administration for "ignoring"
major global developments that included the rise of India
and China, a prominent US lawmaker has said that it was pursuing
a policy that seemed "obsessed with the war on terrorism".
"...
by exploiting the politics of fear, instigating an optional
war in Iraq before finishing a necessary war in Afghanistan
and instituting policies on torture, detainees and domestic
surveillance that fly in the face of our values and interests,
President (George W) Bush divided Americans from each other
and from the world," Senator Joseph Biden said here in
a campaign speech on "Renewing American Leadership".
"At
the heart of this failure is an obsession with the 'war on
terrorism' that ignores larger forces shaping the world and
the lives of Americans in this new century: The emergence
of China, India, Russia and a united Europe; The spread of
lethal weapons and dangerous diseases; Uncertain supplies
of energy, food and water;... A rapidly warming planet; The
challenge to freedom from radical fundamentalism."
Instead
of focusing on these forces, Biden, the Democratic Chairman
of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee charged that Bush
"has fixated on a small number of radical groups that
hate America, turning them into a ten-foot tall existential
monster that dictates every move we make."
