Not to lash out at you but the people who did this were wild savages and
they don't share my GOD.
"Love your enemies" is correct. But in Ecclesiates there is the passage
popularized in song about for everything under Heaven there is a season.
What happened on September 11 is as clear a cause for a season of war that I
have seen.
Stephen O'Shaughnessy wrote:
> Why don't we deal with the people who are our
> enemies? "Love your enemies..." to quote a wise tome.
>
> I've heard all kinds of rhetoric about revenge, retaliation,
> and punishment. All kinds of talk about beefing up security
> and the resulting loss of civil freedoms. But nothing about
> dealing with the real, core, problem of the differences
> between two peoples.
>
> They are not wild, godless, savages. They are dedicated, loving
> intelligent human beings. They are as dedicated to their
> cause as we are to ours. Their attack did not come out of the
> blue, without provocation. We attacked first, in 1998, with
> a cruise missile attack on them. Sure, it goes 'round and
> 'round, but we are not innocent here.
>
> The problem is not airport security or the lack of it. The problem
> is not hamstrung intelligence organizations. The problem is
> a difference in two peoples and our refusal to accept them
> as brothers and sisters under one God.
>
> Nearly every American today, from school children to the elderly,
> can cite the details of this weeks tragedy. Everyone is talking
> about security and now starting to point fingers. Yet no one
> is talking about the perpetrators as people. No one is talking
> about their religion and no one is talking about our differences.
>
> And that is the problem. Reconciling those differences is the solution.
>
> Steve O
> Columbia City, Indiana
>
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Glenn Thompson
Programmer/Analyst
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