Posted by Kevin Bates Admittedly, one of the world's most brutal and long-running regimes has been removed (though no one seems to know where its main players are now) - and no one would argue that that is a bad thing thaqt Saddam and his murderous gang have gone. Perhaps Iraq has some chance of a peaceful future - though that is uncertain. What we would argue however is that the violence that the Coalition used is not the way to peace - as a speaker I heard the other week noted, we are still fighting war with war and violence with violence and we haven't learnt a thing it seems. The gospel calls us to a different process than the biff and bash approach that the Coalition took - following this war, here in Australia we are hearing more rumours of terror and violence than ever - mostly from our own Government. The idea that peace can be won by killing people is absurd - but we as a human family can't seem to find any other way to attempt to create peace. In the end, what we create is fragile and open to attack itself, because it has been born of violence. In using violence ourselves, we simply collude in the terror perpetrated by giving the mad terrorist gangs more excuses to attack us. There has to be another way forward - and the gospel offers some pretty practical and not often-tried suggestions!
on May 29, 2003, 10:33 pm
Message modified by board administrator May 29, 2003, 10:34 pm
How about this mob - Now the Yanks, in the absence of any evidence of weapons of mass destruction, claim that their removal was really not the main reason for going to war a month or two back! Can you believe this - it's all we heard for ages as they tried to convince us that they had to invade in order to get rid of these weapons - and our own little government fell in behind this line.
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