Hello Everybody,   
      
   Can we love our enemies and bomb them?   
      
   US President Barack Hussein Obama certainly thinks so.   
      
   I am deeply saddened by the words that our President,   
   a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, uttered the other   
   night, again calling on the American people to go to war.   
      
   I am also deeply saddened that so many of my fellow   
   Americans have chosen to protest those actions, remaining   
   in the comfort of their own homes while our mercenary   
   soldiers do as they have been told by their dear leader.   
      
   Where are those patriotic Americans who stood up to be   
   counted during the Vietnam War, protesting the injustices   
   of that insane war that killed so many on all sides for   
   no fucking reason?   
      
   Oh, that's right.  Back then, the American people had   
   a conscience, choosing to do what was right rather than   
   allow political leaders gone bad to continue doing harm.   
   Such inaction by doing nothing is giving tacit approval   
   to those who do evil.  What more will it take for my   
   fellow Americans to recognize that basic truth?   
      
   In response to President Obama's call to war concerning   
   the terror group ISIN the only answer there can be is to   
   do as the Good Doctor prescribes -   
      
   "Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness   
   begets a greater toughness.  We must meet the forces of hate   
   with the power of love.  Darkness cannot drive out darkness;   
   only light can do that.  Hate cannot drive out hate; only   
   love can do that.  Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies   
   violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending   
   spiral of destruction ... The chain reaction of evil - hate   
   begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken,   
   or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation."   
   - Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., a different kind of Nobel Laureate   
      
   The Power of Love.  These are words that should make us   
   begin to think globally, for we are all inter-connected.   
      
   We must pray for our political leaders, that they may have   
   the wisdom to search for The Power of Love, which is sure to   
   lead and guide them to what is right and just for all.   
      
   We must pray for our men and women in uniform, who have   
   taken up arms in defense of freedom, for without them we   
   most certainly would be up the creek without a paddle.   
      
   This action by President Barack Obama will end badly,   
   having tragic consequences for all.  Here it is, thirteen   
   years and several wars after the most devastating terror   
   attacks on the USA, and it seems nobody has learned a   
   thing.  If such lessons from the past cannot teach us   
   that violence will only increase when violence is used,   
   what hope is left for us, or for anybody else in this   
   world?   
      
   The futility of taking up arms is a lesson we should have   
   learned long ago, and most especially after the debacle of   
   Iraq and Afghanistan.  Yet here we are again, on the very   
   same precipice, as if George W. Bush had never existed.   
      
   --Lee   
      
   --- MesNews/1.08.05.00-gb   
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