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..

-------------------------------------------------------snip-------------= ------------------------------------------------Fwd:Forwarded message: Sadne= 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-