Reply #54: thanks- for [View All]

[Bluerthanblue]

your reply, and sharing your thoughts. i've been feeling like i must be either invisible, or so far 'out-there' i'm not worth noticing.

What bothers me most about this whole situation, is the way humanity 'demonizes' each other. When people say "they are animals" it is in all honesty, not only a lie, but a sneaky way of letting ourselves off the 'hook' for the evil thoughts AND deeds that live within each one of us.

The men who flew those airliners into the towers could NOT see the common 'humanity' in the faces of the passengers, men, women and children who they were CHOOSING to destroy along with themselves. If they had, if that little girl on her mom's lap touched the common chord that we are ALL more 'alike' than not, that she could have been HIS child, he would never have been able to do what he did.

And when bush calls 'them' evil-doers, people who have no 'respect for life', 'monsters' he's indoctrinating US- our own people with the same kind of ignorance, and blind 'killing machine' thinking that will keep this world in constant everlasting hell until we finally blow it all up.

i have 2 very beloved sons. i want nothing more than to see them grow, mature, and live lives of value, promise, contentment and leave this planet no worse, and hopfully better for their having lived here.- i believe that desire is no different for the average Afgani, Israeli, Iraqi, Saudi, Palestinian, Somali, Nigerian or ANY country's parent.

Blind support of ones country is not loving it. Loving it is being courageous and humble enough to face reality- the 'good' and 'bad' we do. Abu Garhib is shamful without question.- to sweep that under the rug, while bush babbles on about how Saddam 'murdered his own people' and his 'rape rooms' and 'gassed the Kurds' is hyprocricy at it's finest- and were i less patient, i'd HATE America too- but he isn't america- he's a sorry, misguided and guilt riddled little man. Who has my pity, and hopefully someday, my forgiveness.

Thanks for your buck and a half it was well spent.