Comments on: To Bear Witness – Part IV http://moesha.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/to-bear-witness-part-iv/ Moses said, "Please show me your glory." Exodus 33:18 Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:21:53 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: paceodiguerra http://moesha.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/to-bear-witness-part-iv/#comment-4 paceodiguerra Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:42:42 +0000 http://moesha.wordpress.com/?p=8#comment-4 I know...it's so hard to believe it was like five years ago already...I remember the pain after 9/11...and being dimly disturbed at the way Bush was manipulating the raw emotions to suit his purposes...but I wasn't smart enough to see everything. one morning everything is upside down. i think most americans still don't get it. sure, al quaeda = afghanistan. so let's blow them out of the water. nuke em all. but what the hell is iraq having to do with anything. we do international police work and start bombing a country because they are reluctant to allow the UN to trounce all over their land in search of elusive powerful weapons that we armed sadam with only years before? this was all before i had processed pacifism, nonviolence, social justice. it took me a long time to get to the point where i realized america's foreign policy and state sponsored terrorism is way more dangerous to the world than any rag tag freedom fighters ever will be. I know…it’s so hard to believe it was like five years ago already…I remember the pain after 9/11…and being dimly disturbed at the way Bush was manipulating the raw emotions to suit his purposes…but I wasn’t smart enough to see everything.

one morning everything is upside down.

i think most americans still don’t get it. sure, al quaeda = afghanistan. so let’s blow them out of the water. nuke em all.

but what the hell is iraq having to do with anything. we do international police work and start bombing a country because they are reluctant to allow the UN to trounce all over their land in search of elusive powerful weapons that we armed sadam with only years before?

this was all before i had processed pacifism, nonviolence, social justice. it took me a long time to get to the point where i realized america’s foreign policy and state sponsored terrorism is way more dangerous to the world than any rag tag freedom fighters ever will be.

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