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Raed, in a great post, discusses this situation in a way similar to me."Yesterday’s events at Al-Falluja were very sad.
Very very sad.
Killing American civilians is not justified in anyway and anytime.
Even if they were members of the security forces hired by the military, that is not an excuse.
And those images broadcasted on the worldwide T.V. screens were very painful.
I met a driver working on the Amman-Baghdad line, he confirmed what was said on the media channels; the Americans were shot dead in the middle of the main street of Al-Faluja, their cars were burned, stones and rocks were thrown on them while burning, after that their bodies were destroyed, tied by cables and dragged by cars around the small town, and finally hanged on one of the bridges in a strange violent public parade.
The naïve analysis of the CPA and Bremer didn’t go beyond the usual (they are Baathists, they are mere remaining fragments of the previous regime).
Let’s stop for a moment, and think about the innocent souls of those whom were killed in such an ugly way.
Why don’t we put aside our pride and arrogance, our threatening speeches and slogans, and try to stop this accelerating wheel of hate and violence?
Is it revenge/avenge that would be a real solution for such a crisis? |
Of course it isn't. There's a reason, folks, why most modern religions condemn violence and hold onto the general idea of "turn the other cheek," considering revenge ridiculous and pointless. Perhaps our administration AND the Iraqi insurgents need to stop and consider that, what with most of the administration being "Christian" and most of the insurgents being "Muslim.""I refuse to be a part of the daily calls for avenge, as a reaction for what is happening in Palestine and Iraq.
Violence is never the answer.
The extremely shallow foreign police of the American administration gives wrong indications, it proved for everyone in the Middle East region that violence is the only language that they understand…
When the Bremer semi-government closes newspapers and arrest people because they are “inflaming passions”…
When they ask hundreds of thousands of soldiers and other members of the previous Iraqi political and administrational regime to go back home and die slowly…
When they jump from one track to another, one plan to another, in the extremely pragmatic day by day plan with no vision…
They shouldn’t be excluded from the list of red-handed murderers.
But instead of acting like a responsible “ambassador”, reflecting the ideas and principles of his people, the only answer is more and more calls for aggression and hostility.
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Indeed. We can all learn a lesson from this. Violence begets only more violence, and I've never seen evidence to the contrary.
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