A friend of mine commented that this blog was unusually silent on the latest mess in the middle East. I have had several discussions on the topic, often animated, with folks around here. There is talk at the water cooler, a two minute discussion on the elevator liberally sprinkled with tsk-tsks, more drawn-out discussions on the metro (that's DC's subway), and the list goes on.
The middle East thing seems to be one big unending soap opera. You can tune in and tune out periodically without missing a beat. There are always going to enough and more finger-pointing, innumerable "but he did it first"'s, ever-present pissing contests. And of course, bombs.
Who cares about the hundreds of dead and injured, anyway?
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Perhaps, there are ever present pissing contests. It seems that our leaders in America and England, especially, do not wish to listen to their constiuents. We, too, in the U.S. are being pissed upon by Bush and his kin. I feel terribly impotent, yet I say, "Let's pull out before we plant a worse seed than those seeds that have already been planted by our violence. Sadaam Hussein has been caught. What arrogance it is that Bush and others believe that our presence will bring about that which is right or proper or correct while many, many people continue to die. It is arrogance to believe that it is okay for people (most of them totally innocent) to die in order to achieve political desires. War is bullying. War is controlling. War is, and always should be viewed, as bloody murder. War is unacceptable, period. It is not okay that innocent civilians die in these eye-for-an-eye actions. A few soldiers are kidnapped. That does not make it okay to bomb the bloody hell out of another country. Young children are being maimed for life, if not killed. So much of war is fought from far off in a cowardly use of bombs. It should never be acceptable that accidents happen and a village of poor people accidentally gets hit. People should never be viewed of as indispensable. In a war, it is best to decide that NEITHER SIDE IS CORRECT. NEITHER SIDE IS RIGHTE. NEITHER SIDE SHOULD WIN. We must take that THIRD SIDE and help to bring about dialogue by not passing judgment. We have some good peacekeepers and peacemakers in the world. We do not have enough of them. Gandhi was wonderful. Jimmy Carter has achieved great things. America needs to pull out of the middle east. We will leave chaos, but there is chaos presently. Our presence makes the siutation more chaotic and is only DELAYING the outcome that the people of Iraq must work out. Maybe, the UN can bring in peacekeepers after we leave---but they must be peace keepers and take sides against no one. Even terrorists have a point of view that simply MUST BE RESPECTED and worked on. Too often, world leaders arrogantly refuse to negotiate with those that they do not approve of. Bush is not God. Thank the Gods for that. Talking of Gods, we need to show much more respect for the religions, cutoms, traditions of different people and stop imposing Jesus Christ on others. That too is arrogance. It is an arrogance that is very mixed up in the politics of America these days with our Far Right Leaders. We need to get them FAR OUT. From Bruce Johnston of Arlington, VA kindhearted/bruce
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