The Religious War
What started in Iraq and Afghanistan to avenge 9/11, is now in Holland. Last week, Theo van Gogh, whose words cost him his life; yesterday, a bomb was planted in a Moslim elementary school in Eindhoven. The Dutch were not attacking anyone, but the whole world is slowly being drawn in.
Meanwhile, today, we are blowing up Falluja and whoever is left in it. The fighting is fierce. Shades of Vietnam! It has become necessary to destroy the ville in order to save it.
Samarra was also hit, by the insurgents. I know a lad who is a medic in a Special Forces group that should be in Samarra right now. He may be busy. I pray he and his comrades keep well and survive this disaster.
You cannot look at the newsreel clips of the fighting without wondering where this horror will ever end. No wonder Bush held back the assault--and kept Rummy and Co. off the horizon--until after the election.
We have sown the wind; we are reaping the whirlwind.
posted by Bert S. @ 8:10 PM
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I am sorry that the fine young man was murdered. It pains me that so much of his spirit, yet to be expressed, was halted, taken from our planet.
When people speak of humans in reverenced tones, let us remember it was a human that did this. And that that murderous nature is human, and in us all.
Ah, who was that writer? the one that was condemned to hiding by Iran?
We let that stand.
And when the Budha's were torn down by the Taliban?
We let that stand.
It is an old line:
"And when they came for me, there was no one left to call."
Jews should know this. Israel should know this. Jesus, the Israelite knew this: "What profit a man if he gain the world but lose his soul".
Truth is simple. The memorable line from Hillel is "Do not do unto others that which you would not have done to you". But the real line, the one that speaks to the essence of truth is what he said next: "All else is discourse".
Actually, the Canadians, who openly contemplate the divinity of Christ, know they would be killed in the United States for such heresy. If that's too close, well, one could go to Israel and say something nice about the Palestinians.
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