Talking to Enemies

Am I My Brother's Keeper?

John Morton | Posted 11.17.2011

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John Morton

Our feelings towards our brothers or sisters aren't truly about anybody or anything against us. Ultimately, our experience of loving our enemies reveals how we are with loving ourselves.

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Working With Your Enemies

Sharon Salzberg | Posted 11.17.2011

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Sharon Salzberg

It takes strong insight and often a good deal of courage to break away from our habitual ways of looking at things, to be able to respond from a different place.

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Talking Does Not Make a Foreign Policy

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 05.25.2011

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Amitai Etzioni

I believe talking and diplomacy are a good ideas, and a vast improvement over the Bush administration's bankrupt unilateralism. But they are merely means to an end. The question is: to what end?

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Why Junior and McClone Won't Talk to Enemies

Philip Slater | Posted 05.25.2011

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Philip Slater

Refusing to communicate simply hobbles your foreign policy. We never stopped talking to the Soviet Union during the Cold War -- if we hadn't, probably none of us would be alive to have this discussion.

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