I cannot say radical Islamic terrorist - that's not the Islam I was taught

I grew up learning about Islam. It is a religion of peace. 

Obviously, I needed to have the U.S. military handbook purged of any and all negative references to Islamic terrorists. Anything negative said about Islam comes from the mind of an Islamophobe.

When Major Nidal Malik Hasan killed military personnel at Fort Hood several years ago, that was workplace violence even though he shouted allahu akbar while he shot our troops. This is the same with other workplace violence - even if the perpetrator cuts off the head of a co-worker and populating his Facebook page with an ISIS salute and a nod to Osama ben Laden. Better to downplay the superficial connections and to maintain a positive approach.

I'm just like George W. Bush is stepping lightly about identifying radical Islamic terrorists as Islamic. Just because it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, walks like a duck doesn't mean it is a duck. Simple. 

It is important that you don't read books by feminists like Ayaan Hirsi Ali, especially Heretic. You might become convinced that there are radical verses in the Quran. Just because she grew up Islamic, just because she is a woman who was oppressed in the patriarchal culture of North African society, and just because she was the target of a religious fatwa for speaking her mind, doesn't mean Islam has a problem with being a religion of peace today. 

And you should remember how I use a logical fallacy to attack the accurate radical Islamist comments. I simply say those folks are attacking all Muslims. Religious leaders and community leaders and political partisans all fall for this illogical thinking. Good thing I have a lot of lemmings listening to me.

We need to share more - even the ICANN root directory

I think it is important for you to know my philosophy about political discourse on the international stage.

We need to get out of the "America is exceptional" mindset and realize that we are little different than most other countries. We've had a head start in some areas, but we're a colonized country just like Cuba and many other countries. We will have a legacy of racism. We don't need to talk down to leaders like President Raúl Castro. 

If we go to baseball games and the like, we can build positive bonds. We can open up trade and eventually he'll moderate his views. Might be a bit slower, but it beats isolating Cuba and trying to force freedom on them.

That's the same way we can get other countries we call totalitarian to moderate their treatment of their own people.

The ICANN root directory is an easy way to get them to develop a more sensitive approach to their own people.

It's just by accident that we developed the internet first. It's our responsibility to let them join in the management of this technology.

That's how the peace will be won in the world. This is how I see the world.

Will I morph into The Donald?

Some see me as paving the way for The Donald.

I can understand being seen as the positive and articulate, liberal antecedent to The Donald.

But there is a meaner view.

Consider one of my platitudes - being on "the right side of history." I don't have to do anything; history just happens.  The Donald is the bull in the workshop - "I get things done." He's so active that he'll break things; for me, things just break around me without me having to do anything. I know how to lead from behind.

I started out as a uniter, but ended up as a divider. Well, what can I say, the Republicans are the enemy; Wall Street is the enemy, not Occupy Wall Street.  I suppose The Donald will also fail as a uniter; he'll be a divider too, but as my opposite.  

Maybe I am giving birth to The Donald. We're both celebrities and we'll both dictate to the world from the Oval Office.

We are all sinners

From time to time, I have to trick and bully Congress into doing what I know is right. I promise a veto, they blink and I get to do what I want with my executive orders.  Like giving $500 to the United Nations to fund its climate change program to help poor countries with new technology. So what if that money could have helped folks in Flint with their water problem. One needs to have a vision for the whole planet.

Coal and gas plants now would likely save millions of people dying prematurely from opening burning of wood and dung in their homes. Solar will help once newer battery technology is in place. But I just can't allow for an interim solution with coal and natural gas. I don't know why. Maybe it's because we are all born sinners. And we've got to regulate folks behavior.

I've read Hsun Tzu, a Confucius scholar from the 4th century BCE.

Man’s nature is evil, good is the result of conscious activity. . .

A warped piece of wood must wait until it has been laid against the straightening board, steamed, and forced into shape before it can become straight. . . .  Similarly, since man’s nature is evil, it must wait for the instructions of a teacher before it can become upright, and for the guidance of ritual principles before it can become orderly.

In ancient times the wise kings realized that man’s nature is evil, and that he tends towards evil and violence and is not upright or orderly.