Richard A. Falk - Doing something, however pathetic, is psychologically better than doing not

Doing something, however pathetic, is psychologically better than doing nothing. In the current political environment - that is, with no more Cold War tensions - the tendency is to counteract the feelings of fear and vulnerability with a variety of military, paramilitary and police measures, despite the reality that this kind of excessive reliance on force in many ways intensifies the very problem it is purporting to solve.

- Richard A. Falk

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Military, War, Reality, Political Environment