Posted by Orin Kerr:
How Wise People Respond to Aggression:
Guestblogging over at [1]The Leiter Reports, Jessica Wilson offers
advice to Palestinians and supporters of Al Qaeda on how to respond to
the military aggression of the Israelis and the U.S. military. She
writes:
I am not a wise person, though I aspire to be. But I know how a
wise person responds to aggression. When a wise person faces
aggression, they do not immediately and blindly strike back, thus
potentially initiating a cycle of endless violence and retribution.
Rather, they consider why they have been struck. Have they,
perhaps, done something to offend the aggressor? If so, muses the
wise person, perhaps they might avoid future aggression by removing
the source of the offense.
This seems greatly oversimplified, but surely there is some wisdom
there.
UPDATE: Oops, my mistake! I just realized that Wilson intended this
advice for Israel and the United States for how to respond to
aggression from the Palestinians and Al-Qaeda, not the other way
around. I apologize for the confusion.
References
1. http://webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/bleiter/archives/002001.html
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