Reconciliation as a desirable option in our political engagements, disappeared from our national discourse a long time ago. Since the halfhearted effort of the Oputa Panel came to naught, we have been at each others throats. Things have gotten worse progressively and our divisions have taken the front burner in our national interactions. We can attribute this sad state of affairs to the unavoidable bifurcation that partisan politics imposes on us. But this necessity has turned minor cracks into gaping chasms under the watch of politicians who dont understand the meaning of statesmanship and strategic compromise, politicians who dont understand that you cant squeeze a twenty-year outcome out of an eight-year tenure without laying a ten-year foundation. Now our entire future as a country has been reduced to what happens between now and 2015. We are moving closer to a national dénouement more than ever before, since the end of the tragic civil war. How can we step back from the brink? It seems that our leaders have lost the connections that would enable a truly national conversation to take place. Everybodys going for broke in a brinkmanship contest that no one can win and everybody stands to lose. I dont want to sound so pessimistic, but how can one hope when the very embodiments of the future of our country are the ones dying needlessly while septuagenarians describe a future they may never see. We need a trans-partisan initiative, that is truly committed to a non-partisan project to define the lines that politicians cannot cross in their quest for power.
Posted on: Thu, 01 May 2014 18:05:38 +0000
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