[Ailist] Changing Military Perspective

[Cheri Torres]

It is a timeless tradition to find fault with those in power...or to find
fault with anyone not agreeing with us or seeing through our eyes. What I
appreciate about AI is that it encourages us to stop the fault-finding and
finger pointing and invite diverse stories of success into the dialogue. To
look for positive deviance and spotlight it. I love it when a story emerges
that truly invites us to change the paradigm, which I think the military is
doing. In my opinion, it is a HUGE shift to begin putting energy, effort and
military power on "what we want to happen" instead of on "eliminating what
we don't want to happen."  What could be more AI!
Perhaps we can make more room for those in power to change by uplifting
significant positive change and action and applauding those who support such
change.  This is really the power of AI--to find these stories and fan them.
 Tell more and more of them. Somewhere there is a tipping point.  I think we
are likely to reach that point more rapidly if we shine the light on people
in power who are engaged in positive action rather than continuing to label
large groups of people as 'bad'.

Cheri

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Lionel Boxer <lionel.boxer at rmit.edu.au>wrote:

> Politicians and businesspeople have always started war.  In the distant
> past the policiticans tended to be kings and they tended to lead their
> soldiers into battle.  These days they have no involvement beyond deciding
> to deploy troops.
>
> Lionel Boxer CD PhD MBA BTech(IndEng) - 0411267256
> Associate of RMIT University - lionel.boxer at rmit.edu.au
> Graduate School of Business
> my "Assessment of Quality Systems with Positioning Theory"
> now in a googe book - see link at http://intergon.net
> >>> <Capela2 at aol.com> 29/06/09 7:18 AM >>>
> As a father whose son is scheduled to be deployed next week to Afghanistan
> I found the conversation interesting. I think the army is making a
> concerted  effort to reduce the chance of killing innocent lives which is
> good.
> Unfortunately when you are confronted with making a decision whether to
> shoot
> or  not to save your life it can be difficult at times. The other problem
> is
> this  war is more difficult when the enemy has no difficulty using
> innocents
> to  protect themselves.
>
> Which goes to the other point if you talk to a soldier he or she would
> probably say war is a last resort unfortunately politicians are often the
> ones
> making the decisions not fighting the battle.
>
> Stan Capela
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Cheri B. Torres, Ph.D.

Asheville, NC
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