Posted by Kevin Bates So many questions in a world that is in a certain decline at the moment. The Pope keeps expressing his deep concern and deep belief that war is no answer to our difficulties - we have surely proved that time and again and yet war seems to be a more normal human condition than peace. What is wrong with us that we need to resolve everything with violence? May we one day grow up to the point where we can give ourselves permission to seek peace through peaceful means - I suppose that's just a pipe-dream at the moment, but the gospel belief is that such a peace is practical and do-able. In the meantime we feel a certain powerlessness in the face of the violence and fear that so dictates our relationships right now.
on April 6, 2003, 2:11 pm
Message modified by board administrator April 7, 2003, 5:43 am
With the US seemingly close to taking control of Iraq, we wonder, along with many journalists and others at the moment what the peace will mean. Will it mean that the Iraqi people are "liberated"? Certainly without Saddam Hussein their lives will be more hopeful and free - those who have survived that is. How will the country re-form itself? What will be the response of the fundamentalist terrorist groups who so threaten world peace at this time? What will be the US's attitude to other states who disagree with their ideology as espoused by the current administration?
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