How to stop terrorism
07/10/05
Like many, I was upset about the horrific terrorist attacks on London on July 7th. I spent a few days in London just this past Christmas. I know my way around the Tube. It gave me flashbacks of my days working at Ground Zero right after the September 11th attacks, and the thousands of grieving people I met in the months afterwards as a Red Cross coordinator of chaplains at the New York Family Assistance Center. However, I am equally upset by the ongoing U.S. terrorist attacks on Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and elsewhere. My heart breaks with every report of the hundreds of nameless people who die from our bombs, our weapons, our soldiers. For me, then the question, 'How to Stop Terrorism?' is easy. We stop terrorism first of all by stopping our own terrorism! We cannot fight terrorism by becoming terrorists...
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0710-23.htm
from Common Dreams, by John Dear
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Like many, I was upset about the horrific terrorist attacks on London on July 7th. I spent a few days in London just this past Christmas. I know my way around the Tube. It gave me flashbacks of my days working at Ground Zero right after the September 11th attacks, and the thousands of grieving people I met in the months afterwards as a Red Cross coordinator of chaplains at the New York Family Assistance Center. However, I am equally upset by the ongoing U.S. terrorist attacks on Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and elsewhere. My heart breaks with every report of the hundreds of nameless people who die from our bombs, our weapons, our soldiers. For me, then the question, 'How to Stop Terrorism?' is easy. We stop terrorism first of all by stopping our own terrorism! We cannot fight terrorism by becoming terrorists...
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0710-23.htm
from Common Dreams, by John Dear
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 11. Jul, 13:46
