Colin wrote Unfortunately we will be at war in a few days and yet another country is on the USA hate list.
My reply......... I have been sitting here at my window with a glorious, clear, bright sun streaming in across my shoulders and thinking how beautiful all this is. I walked my dog along the beach this morning in air so clean and rich with sea smell you could taste it. Returning to my car it struck me how mad and how skewed this world is, and how all our realities, whether for or against the war, are trembling on the brink of some huge abyss; fearful of the drop we know must come, but aware (and unable to avoid) the updraft of hate and misinformation that will bear us aloft. There is no way any of us, regardles of our stance, can personally dissociate ourselves from the likely retaliatory events that will arrive in our own countries from the various factions whose axes have been sharpened for a long long time on the grinding wheel of Blair and Bush's unstoppable bloodlust. Kate BEnnet sent the UN peace list to me (thank you Kate) and it is one of about 5 I have received, and I read the wonderful account of her hearing of Bob Muller and how we are waging peace.... If only that was true of the people who are pulling our international strings....... The only possible outcome of war is more hate, Lives on ALL SIDES will be wasted, children and loved ones ON ALL SIDES left bereaved, maimed, with lives altered beyond any healing...... and each side will blame the other for the grief and pain. HOw is it possible for our leaders to set themselves up as beyond international law and unity, to chase whatever it is they are after, and drag the majority into their mayhem, to suffer the consequences of their folly? How is this possible? I am more fearful for this planet and all who live in it than I have been for all of my 46 years. I am fearful for the children of this world, whatever their race, creed or colour. What lessons are we teaching them from this episode in history? WE will reap as we sow and (although that is always quoted as a biblical epithet) it is about natural balance and currently the fate of this world is in the hands of careless farmers. I hope and yearn for some immense change of heart by our leaders so that we may all live until we die, able to fulfil the potential we were born with. Friends of the list, whatever your views on the justice or injustice of this awful situation, lets unite in hoping that some other way to resolve this mess is found, and soon. Lucy N.P. The Lark Ascending.... VAughan Williams
