From Where I Stand Sr. Joan Chittister is on the road
Sr. Joan Chittister is traveling in the Middle East Nov. 8-15 and has asked for prayers. She is traveling as co-chair of the Global Peace Initiative of Women, an organization sponsored by the United Nations.
Chittister and other memembers of the Global Peace Initiative of Women are to attend a dialogue in Beirut, Lebenon, among religious leaders in the Middle East and Asia aimed at revitalizing their individual spiritual traditions in an effort to build understanding, mutual respect and greater inter-religious cooperation.
Her group will also meet with religious and government officials in Damascus, Syria, at the invitation of the Syrian ambassador to the United States.
I cannot stress suficiently
Submitted by John B on November 9, 2006 - 10:40pm.
I cannot stress suficiently how important is the work of Sister Joan. Her place in our world is of utmost importance in a world that sees war as the solution to differences and problems.
The recent death of American soldiers which is a small percentage of the deaths of others at their hands is a matter for the greatest grief. That these soldiers have given their lives for an ideal that is spurious and motivated by nothing but greed and arrogance is the greatest tragedy of this decade and perhaps of this millenium.
The American nation has embarked on a path that can lead only to disgrace and shame, a shame more heinous than that of the Third Reich, led by a man who was certifiable. No less is this current regime (Reich) of a father/son combination that hopes to gain control of a resource, oil, but is using this as a ruse to support the steel industry and all the other industries that profit from war. There is no way that any of this action can be accepted.
We in the West believe that the way of Democracy and capitalism is the right way, but this does not excuse imposing this on other nations. The concept of democracy is rule by the people, the people that it affects. In this case it is being imposed by a foreign nation whose only goal is to capture a resource that is being exhausted by the unconscionable waste of it for no other reason than to support the money interests of those who already have too much. For this an uncountable number of Iraqis and, yes Americans, have given their lives. Such a sacrifice is entirely wrong, evil, vile. Those Americans who have died for this cause have been suckered into belief that "the American Way" is the be- all and end-all in good government. It may well be, but still it can not be condoned to impose it on another country in the name of Democracy, rule by the people, of the people and for the people. It is to mock the very idea of Democracy.
We are now approaching November the 11th, a day when we remember those who have given their lives for our freedom. This freedom does not give us licence to impose our ideals on the world in general. Where our borders stop, our ideals must retire.
The head of state of the US has taken sweeping powers to himself by declaring war on another nation, a nation that has done nothing to warrent such a decaration, excused by a blatant lie about weapons of mass destruction. Those who should be watchdogs of such a declaration have defaulted in their duty and permitted such a ruse. Now that the President's party is no longer in power in the Senate and Congress it is time to bring this man to justice. He has committed most flagrantly acts which have cost the lives of uncountable numbers of people, including non-combatants. He is guilty of murder far exceeding any serial killer in history, he has lied to Congress, he has defiled the image of the US beyong repair and embarked on a program that will destroy the American economy. He cannot be upheld as "Head of State" under such a situation. It is time for Congress and the Senate to bring this man to justice. Impeachment would be too little, he needs to be charged with war crimes and sentenced on conviction to an appropriate punishment. Remember the fate of Mussolini, it would be too little too late.
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While I have no love for
Submitted by As We Forgive on November 10, 2006 - 12:15am.
While I have no love for Bush, less for Chaney and absolutely none for Rumsfeld, we need to remember that our citizens allowed this terrible man to be President twice. The second election is the more shameful because by then we all knew just how much evil he was spreading. Therefore, we can not blame it all on him and forgive ourselves. Many, including myself, tried to stop him in 2004 by working for the Democrats, but others, even among those on this blog supported him to the hilt. I wish more had been done then, in 2004. This time we tried harder to pull down his heal-clicking followers. Many people certainly contributed more time and money to the cause. We had some success, but many others of his ilk are still in power.
Yet to you point, I say that we should never see our ex-presidents in war crime courts. It would do our country more harm than good. We can not put him there while knowing that we all are collectively to blame in some way. We buried our Christian heads in the sand of Iraq.
... the greatest of these ...
Chittister and other memembers of the Global Peace Initiative of Women are to attend a dialogue in Beirut, Lebenon, among religious leaders in the Middle East and Asia aimed at revitalizing their individual spiritual traditions in an effort to build understanding, mutual respect and greater inter-religious cooperation.
Her group will also meet with religious and government officials in Damascus, Syria, at the invitation of the Syrian ambassador to the United States.
I cannot stress suficiently
Submitted by John B on November 9, 2006 - 10:40pm.
I cannot stress suficiently how important is the work of Sister Joan. Her place in our world is of utmost importance in a world that sees war as the solution to differences and problems.
The recent death of American soldiers which is a small percentage of the deaths of others at their hands is a matter for the greatest grief. That these soldiers have given their lives for an ideal that is spurious and motivated by nothing but greed and arrogance is the greatest tragedy of this decade and perhaps of this millenium.
The American nation has embarked on a path that can lead only to disgrace and shame, a shame more heinous than that of the Third Reich, led by a man who was certifiable. No less is this current regime (Reich) of a father/son combination that hopes to gain control of a resource, oil, but is using this as a ruse to support the steel industry and all the other industries that profit from war. There is no way that any of this action can be accepted.
We in the West believe that the way of Democracy and capitalism is the right way, but this does not excuse imposing this on other nations. The concept of democracy is rule by the people, the people that it affects. In this case it is being imposed by a foreign nation whose only goal is to capture a resource that is being exhausted by the unconscionable waste of it for no other reason than to support the money interests of those who already have too much. For this an uncountable number of Iraqis and, yes Americans, have given their lives. Such a sacrifice is entirely wrong, evil, vile. Those Americans who have died for this cause have been suckered into belief that "the American Way" is the be- all and end-all in good government. It may well be, but still it can not be condoned to impose it on another country in the name of Democracy, rule by the people, of the people and for the people. It is to mock the very idea of Democracy.
We are now approaching November the 11th, a day when we remember those who have given their lives for our freedom. This freedom does not give us licence to impose our ideals on the world in general. Where our borders stop, our ideals must retire.
The head of state of the US has taken sweeping powers to himself by declaring war on another nation, a nation that has done nothing to warrent such a decaration, excused by a blatant lie about weapons of mass destruction. Those who should be watchdogs of such a declaration have defaulted in their duty and permitted such a ruse. Now that the President's party is no longer in power in the Senate and Congress it is time to bring this man to justice. He has committed most flagrantly acts which have cost the lives of uncountable numbers of people, including non-combatants. He is guilty of murder far exceeding any serial killer in history, he has lied to Congress, he has defiled the image of the US beyong repair and embarked on a program that will destroy the American economy. He cannot be upheld as "Head of State" under such a situation. It is time for Congress and the Senate to bring this man to justice. Impeachment would be too little, he needs to be charged with war crimes and sentenced on conviction to an appropriate punishment. Remember the fate of Mussolini, it would be too little too late.
================
While I have no love for
Submitted by As We Forgive on November 10, 2006 - 12:15am.
While I have no love for Bush, less for Chaney and absolutely none for Rumsfeld, we need to remember that our citizens allowed this terrible man to be President twice. The second election is the more shameful because by then we all knew just how much evil he was spreading. Therefore, we can not blame it all on him and forgive ourselves. Many, including myself, tried to stop him in 2004 by working for the Democrats, but others, even among those on this blog supported him to the hilt. I wish more had been done then, in 2004. This time we tried harder to pull down his heal-clicking followers. Many people certainly contributed more time and money to the cause. We had some success, but many others of his ilk are still in power.
Yet to you point, I say that we should never see our ex-presidents in war crime courts. It would do our country more harm than good. We can not put him there while knowing that we all are collectively to blame in some way. We buried our Christian heads in the sand of Iraq.
... the greatest of these ...
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