This evening I went to a talk at my school called Diversity: More than black and white. The 
speaker was Joyce Davis a journalist that spend more than three decades overseas interviewing some very interesting people. She is also the author of "Between Jihad and Salaam" and "Martyrs." She gave a really great talk, made some really great points, and encouraged everyone to talk as well. One great point that she brought up was that we as Americans are at a disadvantage because we know very little about the rest of the world in general, but most of the world stays informed about us. Also Americans what things now and they do not 
want to wait for them, but we cannot take that attitude toward war. In most of these countries we are fighting they do not expect the war to be won in their life time; they are in for the long haul and we either have to commit to that as well or leave now because if we are not committed it will never work. Also we need to remember that suicide bombers are not the status quo and we cannot judge all Muslims based on what they do. On of the most important things that I think she said was that there is no military solution, some fighting might be necessary, but the solution will come from talking. Lol, the funniest thing she said however was that we should get mars to invade us because then we would all stop fighting and work to a common goal. A connection that I made when she was talking about America fighting a traditional war in a war that is no longer traditional is that we have become the Red Coats. We are now that ones that insist that this is how you fight, but in the end we will get our butts kicked if we do not change our way of thinking. I really enjoyed hearing Joyce talk and am looking forward to reading her books.
speaker was Joyce Davis a journalist that spend more than three decades overseas interviewing some very interesting people. She is also the author of "Between Jihad and Salaam" and "Martyrs." She gave a really great talk, made some really great points, and encouraged everyone to talk as well. One great point that she brought up was that we as Americans are at a disadvantage because we know very little about the rest of the world in general, but most of the world stays informed about us. Also Americans what things now and they do not want to wait for them, but we cannot take that attitude toward war. In most of these countries we are fighting they do not expect the war to be won in their life time; they are in for the long haul and we either have to commit to that as well or leave now because if we are not committed it will never work. Also we need to remember that suicide bombers are not the status quo and we cannot judge all Muslims based on what they do. On of the most important things that I think she said was that there is no military solution, some fighting might be necessary, but the solution will come from talking. Lol, the funniest thing she said however was that we should get mars to invade us because then we would all stop fighting and work to a common goal. A connection that I made when she was talking about America fighting a traditional war in a war that is no longer traditional is that we have become the Red Coats. We are now that ones that insist that this is how you fight, but in the end we will get our butts kicked if we do not change our way of thinking. I really enjoyed hearing Joyce talk and am looking forward to reading her books.
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