wrong Martin Luther dude, sorry
We sat behind a woman who was wearing a nice top, it had all of Marilyn Monroe�s Movie Posters (and no Tyler, Marilyn Monroe was not the fifth First Lady of the United States) but the problem is that this woman�s brassiere made it looks like she had a unique and terrible problem with back fat. Her mother has extremely short hair and wears a headband every Sunday, which is something that evades my comprehension. If you are not holding back your hair why would you put it on your head. It doesn�t even touch her hair.
Then the homily touched on the subject of peace. We oscillate between having sermons and homilies depending on who typed up the bulletin. I was reminded that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was right, Peace isn�t the absence of Conflict it is the presence of Justice. That�s why the conflicts in the Middle East cannot end: there is no Justice. There cannot be Justice in the Middle East because what is Just for Jew is not Just for the Palestinian and vice versa and the region�s dynamics are religious and religions are held together by faith, faith is an emotion and emotions transcend logic.
People want to see an absence of conflict in Iraq and point to that absence in the pre-liberation regime and to the conflict riddled occupation but there is more justice today in Iraq than there was a year ago at this time. Only someone with wool over their eyes could deny that Iraq is better off now than before.
People want to see an absence of conflict in Iraq and point to that absence in the pre-liberation regime and to the conflict riddled occupation but there is more justice today in Iraq than there was a year ago at this time. Only people with wool over their eyes could deny that Iraq is better off now than before.
I�m not a big fan of using �his or her� in my avoidance of �sexist� language � pluralizing is easer to read than s/he and his or her.
Well, anyway, back to Iraq � there will be peace when there is justice and in order for us to get to that goal we have to traverse that wilderness of violence and backlash from the former regime to get there. We did it in Germany, Italy and Japan. We can do it here.
The UN cannot. I have a hard time believing that intelligent people think that. The UN has come agencies that can do some helpful things but they cannot nation build. Most of the countries in the UN aren�t democracies. Should we put a country in charge of creating a democracy that isn�t one itself? The United Kingdom did a better job than any European power in peacefully decolonizing their former Empire. Who better to have working in Iraq? The United States has the tradition of the Marshall Plan under our belt � we too are qualified to help the Iraqis to a better tomorrow. I doubt that Cuba, Zimbabwe or Cambodia are well equipped to do this job.
It is also the UN�s impotence that exacerbated this mess. I like how the Democratic Candidates �blast� Bush�s foreign policy after eight years of a Democratic President without a strategic vision for the United States in the world and when they �blast� the President they either don�t have an idea of their own, have the same idea that the President has OR has something completely unrealistic (Kucinich). If you compared what Kerry, Dean and Smokin� Joe Lieberman are proposing and what Bush has done and is doing you�ll see the same policy but with an angry person proposing it.
Baw.
I respect that Fox News calls the Homicide Bombers that instead of Suicide Bombers. They�re killing people � not just themselves.
I wonder if I�ll get in trouble for pondering the wrong Martin Luther in church?
I�m at my parent�s house for the next couple days and their dog hates me. Read about Buddy�s tail and why their dog should and does hate me.
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