...a failure to communicate.

I'd like to be a peacemaker. To bring feuding sides together. By getting them to talk to each other. To determine what they have in common. Like Republicans and Democrats. Or capitalists and socialists. The Jews and the Palestinians. On and on the list could go. So many feuds are the result of misunderstandings. Or because people just don't sit down and talk and socialize and get to know each other. I often find that I like people who disagree with me. They might even disparage me. But I often think they are being funny. Because they want to only talk. And not to listen. Some people would rather go to war than to reach peace. I think war is unnecessary. It results from a failure to communicate. --Jim Broede