Belligerence

Now there might be a better word to describe an absence of
co-operation, but I'm not sure what that might be.

But you need to congratulate the guys who came up with
"United States", as a name, which does exude a sense of
concept of co-operation, as compared to the " Belligerent
States ",,, which I don't think would be highly conducive
to making many friends.  In fact the Belligerent States
would simply be B.S.

Another kind of "big" problem with belligerence is that
when one person is being belligerent it's really easy to
blame the belligerence on another party.   Huge problem,
which has become very much in vogue these days.
In other words, I am not belligerent you are belligerent.


And so back to discussing the whole issue of the excessive
unpleasant trends moving more rapidly toward a highly
conflictive ( ? )  environment I  have already said it
will take quite a bit of effort to over come this, but
meanwhile, it seems that we should focus efforts into
our political system to reduce this trend as much as
possible, and  in effect to reduce this we need to
at least elect one official who's primary mandate
it to reduce that conflict.  Therefore it seems
sensible for that person would hold the highest office.
And again it seems that that individual should
be elected from a group of individual who do
not represent a particular partisan position,
in other words to elect that official in a mostly "non-partisan"
environment .  But in the end whatever efforts we
can make collectively to reduce what I would describe as
a run away train ( Kind of reminds me of Jethro Tull, no? )...

Anyway, this is also a kind of birthday card to
a friend far away.