Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Hard to Talk about Good News Today
It is hard to find anything good to post on a day when 1000 innocent Iraquis jumped to their death for fear of being killed by a suicide bomber.
As an American I am not proud of how my country has handled this entire situation -- the war-that-wasn't-a-war (because Congress never declared it so prisoners of ____ aren't covered by international treaties that protect prisoners of war), going in without the agreement of the United Nations, the fact that weapons of mass destruction were never found, that a year and a half later, the deaths still mount and now another 1000 innocent people are dead.
At a recent international Scientology event, Mr. David Miscavige pointed out the L. Ron Hubbard once said "Ideas not battles mark the foward progress of mankind. Individuals, and not masses, form the culture of the race."
We can't "win" in Iraq or anywhere through force. It is time we really look into the human rights issues that underly the dissent in Iraq and address them, removing the fuel that feeds terrorism.
