i usually dont send anyth=
ing like this to the list, it not being friday, and especially as we're tryi=
ng to resume our "regularly scheduled programming" :<) but someone forwar=
ded this to me and it made me think. i am not biased in either way, i =
just thought that many of you as Americans (and our foriegn listmembers too)=
may find this interesting.. please, no threads, just read (or not) an=
d delete..
just something to think about..
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ss..
Grief seems to have taken hold of me, or perhaps fear. I feel sick today=
. The sorrow overwhelms. I keep thinking of the sadness of old people who ha=
ve lived through WWII, and of young people, who have never known war. Innoce=
nce lost.
And I know that this country has created among many nations the enemies =
we now face. By our policies and politics and greed we have armed tyrants, m=
urderers. We and our allies have grown fat at the expense of those who might=
have been friends if only we had taken the time to learn and understand.Who=
thought the Gulf War was for anything other than oil? At the end of this=
century the oil will be gone, but what cultures will remain? What people ar=
e God's chosen? Are we not all the same?
The seeds of hate are planted far and wide. Where to stop killing? Where=
to stop hating? In God's name millions of Americans are praying for veng=
ance even as our enemies are praying to God for vengance. We and They tea=
ch hate to our children from the moment they are born. In God's name fantati=
cs murder and enslave and dominate their fellow beings...The terrorist, t=
he bigot, the racist...
God is love, and I am sick of man's hate...
Look in your mind's eye at the many colors of the dead. How many America=
ns have to die before we remember the dead in Africa, in South America, in K=
osovo? The many races, the many faiths. What more powerful symbolism do we n=
eed? How can we look into the eyes, into the hearts of our fellow beings,=
and not love them all? I must be the one insane.
-anonymous-