All we need?

It seems to me that most problems can by solved by Love, even those problems that currently seem most intractable.

For instance, it seems inarguably true that if the Palestinians loved the Israelis and the Israelis loved the Palestinians that neither side in that conflict would be capable of perpetuating violence against the other.

If people loved unilaterally, then how could racism be possible?

Why is it, then, that Love itself is never seriously considered as a solution to a conflict?

Is it because we cannot carpet bomb an enemy with love?

Is it because we cannot fashion an atomic compassion?

Philosophers have studied love for ages and many seem to tell us that the pathway to love is to imitate love via the great virtues. That is, to practice prudence and temperance and courage and justice and generosity and compassion and mercy and gratitude and humility and simplicity and tolerance and purity and gentleness and good faith and humor is to practice the causes of love and therefore it leads one to it.

Shall we drop Spinoza's Ethics, an improving book in Jeeves parlance, on humanity?

Jesus, when asked, said you must feed your enemy. I like to joke that the words "to the lions" were the rest of the sentence and somehow lost to history.

But, is there wisdom in that viewpoint that we should feed our enemies?

Doesn't desperation spread fanaticism? Isn't it true that when a society practices social uplift and generates a large middle-class and keeps economic inequality in check that strife decreases?

Wasn't that the case under Bill Clinton?

What makes hatred so easy and love so difficult?

I am happiest when I am in love and I assume the same holds true for others.

Why then don't we allow love to direct our actions more often?

Why have we organized our economies and societies in such a way that hate and haters are vigorously spreading?

A Devil's delight, a clash of cultures, a ball for barbarians, an awful Armageddon seems headed our way and Love looks like the most effective defense.

How do we nourish it before it's too late?