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There is another wayAfter hearing for the umpteenth time how we must fight our enemies over there so we don't have to fight them here, I actually felt a twinge of compassion because I realized the president simply doesn't know any other way! Bush professes to be a Christian guided by Christian principles. Yet the most basic of these principles, "love your enemies," is conveniently ignored. Bush's relentless mantra of "kill the enemy" tells me that he doesn't have a clue that there's another way. President Nixon, regardless of his faults, made a brilliant gesture when he went to China. He saw the potential for an East-West conflict, and rather than threatening the Chinese and calling them enemies, he proposed that we can be partners. Bush has available to him the wisdom of the ages -- people such as Martin Buber, who showed us that putting labels on people deprives them of their humanity and makes it easy to throw rocks, bullets and bombs at them. Or Marshall Rosenberg and Martin Luther King Jr., who showed that we can resolve differences through nonviolent means. These methods not only can end this war and other conflicts in the world but can prevent future wars. Let's work to end the insanity of war.
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Our feckless leader Preznut Bush comes to his senses and asks for forgiveness for his rush to war and the dismantling of the Constitution--I MIGHT have a "twinge of compassion" for the guy.
I won't go into a litany of faults the man has but he certainly doesn't get Martin Buber, MLK or Rosenburg in his evening reading time. But he is not ignorant of Christian principles, just a man who is power-mad and lost in his own dark soul.
Bush is the worst kind of Christian--one who professes a faith he obviously does not have.
If you want to end the insanity of war, work to get Congress to defund the current one and for the impeachment of Cheney/Bush.
I appreciate your efforts and love for everyone but you're wasting time and effort on these men who would send others to kill for an ideology or a profit in a heartbeat.
As for Nixon, I actually forgave him before he died, But his "brilliant move" just nudged a totalitarian state into capitalism and opened the door for exploitation of the masses.