I am appalled by the war in Iraq. I am not a pacifist but I just think that we need to find peaceful solutions to problems if we want peace as the outcome. Kind of like drinking water for a headache instead of taking a barbiturate. Some solutions cause new problems. Violence, no matter how justified it might seem, begets violence. What does it say in the bible? I’m not religious but isn’t turning the other cheek one of the biggies. It seems that the people over there who we’ve “liberated” don’t have such a high opinion of us. I mean, are we really still fighting Saddam’s people or are the people we’re fighting now, actually, totally different from the people we went over to defeat.
I’m struck by how powerless I feel in this thing. I know that there are so many others who share my opinion and yet the military budgets continue soar. I’m also struck by how difficult it is to separate this situation from the historical context that it is in. These situations are hundreds of years in the making. How else can thoughtful people carry out murder.

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- posted by danvt @ 10:40 AM