Is it just me, or does anyone else see the dichotomy attenuate to the notions that: a) America should escalate her military presence in Afghanistan, but b) her inner city youth need to find nonviolent ways of addressing their differences with others? Both of these scenarios represent subsets of the larger sociological discipline of conflict resolution. And since the methodologies of dealing with the two scenarios are “mutually exclusive”, “contradictory”, and “sharply distinguished or opposed” they undoubtedly fit the definition of a dichotomy. But should they be dichotomous or should we resolve both scenarios similarly?

I believe that principles are principles. If you follow specific ideology in one circumstance, you follow it in another. What’s your take?