Theos-Talk Archives (January 1999 Message tl00062)

Cybercmh@aol.com writes
>much of Alan's sympathy
>toward the Iraqis is likely rooted in his own experience of WWII.  And
>sometimes our blindnesses are rooted in *lack* of experience - we blithely
>traipse along with a pet theory about something, until real-life experience
>blows it out of the water and we are forced to re-think things.  It's happened
>to me...

Good points.  as a matter of clarification, my sympathies are directed
towards the *people* who are bombed, etc.  This does not mean (vide
Iraq) that I necessarily support the *leaders* of those who are bombed,
or of those who order their bombing.

To all who favour bombing *anyone* I would suggest going somewhere
where they can hear the whistling noise a bomb makes when it is
*directly overhead* and could mean "Bye bye world" for *them*

If there is anything to dive under, well, you dive under it.  There is no on
the spot analysis of the political situation nor the reasons for the bomb.
It's a case of survival.

My grandfather and I were both, in the armed services, trained to shoot
to kill.  Both of us also had Red Cross training which could enable us to
help those we didn't quite finish off.  Crazy, or what? (My father was in
a reserved occupation - all he had to do was print!)

Alan
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