Adventures in My Mind
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Sep 12, 2001
What does all of this mean? Where do we go from here? Two questions which beg for answers that no one can provide in the face of this unimaginable tragedy. The hawks are thumping their tables and rattling their sabres. Retaliate with strength and swiftness they say. They alternate between declarations of war and assurances that those responsible will be brought to justice. They fail to remember that one has precious little to do with the other. We are either killers like our enemies or we play by the rules, rules that do not guarantee our ultimate victory. What then? More war? More terror? I vote NO!
The doves call for love, compassion, and understanding. These are honourable goals to be sure. If you live your life with any one of these three as a guiding principal, you make the world a better place. But these principals have nothing to do with fanatacism, with extreme radicalism, with hate. You mention them to one who is willing to pilot a plane full of passengers into a building bustling with thousands of people and you might as well be speaking in another tongue. It is foreign. It is not part of someone who has been indoctrinated with extremism and hate since childhood. Turning one cheek will assuredly get the other smacked. For that, I also vote NO!
To defeat an enemy, you either destroy them utterly or you get them to admit defeat. We can achieve neither with those who are willing to perpetrate yesterday's sickening events.
To give love and compassion, you must first have a willing recipient. Clearly we lack that also.
I have no answers for our dilema. I have only pecimism. Pecimism that our government lacks the strength and wisdom to react appropriately. Pecimism that our actions will spark a true war. And pecimism that we will never be the same, ever.
I am afraid, and I don't know what to do.
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