Hello Lori I have watched your discussions with real interest and I am truly humbled at the knowledge and depth of feeling that are expressed. I am a true apolitical and a confirmed humanist. It does bother me, because of the human rights issues involved, about the plight of those in Iraq, but equally bothered about abuse in all countries and I do not exclude the UK or US in those areas of concern.
I work for a very large children's charity as a fundraiser and feel deeply to the core about the issues young people face in this ever more scary world...the pressure they feel to take part in drug taking and alcohol abuse and the spiral or degradation that can lead from those things... I can rattle on for hours if required. the issues of war cmae up in a talk I was giving today when one of the kids said he felt truly despairing of any future for this planet when no one seemed to consider the youngsters whose fathers were going off to the Gulf, and may be killed fighting on the side of ....what? truth, justice, He was a 14 year old in a failing school who really made me think... It is a sad time for humanity....... and those who are the abusers, those who are the warmongers, those whose jingoism lights their pale eyes with zealous glee at the thought of a fight, whilst changing channels for the better news coverage of the bombings (that will take place)......... need to look inwards at what they are doing to the world, to the people they are supposed to be governing, and to their SELF (the inner being we all of us have reagardless of colour or creed). Jackson Browne in HOW LONG sings When you think about the money spent On defence by each government And the weapons of destruction they build they are so sure that they need.... and you think about the millions, and millions that money could feed..... that has my vote...... It should have been Aid to Afghanistan, not bombs.......... Lucy
