What happens if other people think differently?

What happens if other people are not like us?

What happens if they don’t respond for their own reasons?

A logical consequence of the present foreign policy is that others should finally respond to our treating them with dignity and listening to them. But what happens if they don’t respond to our goals. What happens if they have their own goals, especially if that is the way they were raised up. This is a classic East vs. West cultural friction.

One logical consequence of the present foreign policy will lead us to war if the others reject our good efforts. This means our kids and families going in harm’s way. Why?

Another consequence is to back off, our bluff being rejected by the opponent. The logical consequence is that appeasement will only kick the probability of war down a few years.

Then many people will die.

There are alternatives. Confronting Iran, for example, now, will make things better in the end, at least we hope. But ignoring the rise of this regional power and its leaders will only make things worse, or at least, many think so.

Germany and Japan were regional powers, and look what we got to solve in WWII, of course, for our own reasons.