Blogging for Freedom

We pray for all souls who suffered on that terrible day five years ago.  We still remember.  We still have not caught the man who did it. The War on Terrorism has taken a new direction. Not a good direction.  Too many people are still dying to avenge that day, but now the violence has spread to innocents.  It is the children - all the children - that we must remember.  Those who lost moms and dads and sisters and brothers and who will never be the same because of it.  The children in Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan and Afghanistan, and everywhere else war and turmoil exist, are our responsibility, too. They are as much future citizens of the planet as American children are.

September 11 was terrifying, horrifying, unspeakable. We were all Americans, united in sorrow. Now, five years on, politicians are using that national tragedy to gain votes.  Republicans say Democrats are "cut & runners", appeasers, lazy, unpatriotic, enemy sympathizers because we are opposed to the Iraq war in particular and war in general.  Call us "peaceniks" or liberal bleeding hearts, whatever. I still believe that Christ is the Prince of Peace and a step toward peace and justice and plenty for everyone is to talk to each other, remembering that we are more alike than we are different. We have more in common than we realize. We all love our country, don't we? Even more, we need to love the world and the planet.  Sappy thinking?  Maybe, but what else do we have?