By John
L. Otto
Peace…
A word we seldom heard much anymore. Peace
has become a forbidden word in politics. Imagine if a politician championed
peace in the Middle East such actions would
run the risk of one becoming a social pariah. The word peace is primarily
termed as ‘The Peace Process’ In political, military and diplomatic arenas but
the language of peace is bereft of meaning, implementation and mention…even in
religious speak.
Has it been this way so long that now there
is no chance of peace as we are more emboldened to join our enemy in their goal
of total annihilation? We have turned the War on Terror into a One-upmanship
contest of war atrocities and ‘justifiable’ moral depravity which is the
absolute opposite of, and the reason for, Jesus’ message of ‘turn the other
cheek’. This is well exemplified in our current situation in that we are living
and dying the very results of not heeding those words and we are on a path that
has a goal that I fear more than our enemy. I am not saying that an attempt at
a peaceful solution would have been successful but not having ever tried is why
there is no chance for peace now….And I am saying we should have NEVER gone
there and we should GET OUT (maybe leave the war criminals that are responsible
tied up & barefoot in the middle of the crISIS spot; not to mention the
reason behind all the terror in Palestine
& Israel but I just mentioned it.
What
a dishonor to that we reproach the people who speak the words: Blessed are the
Peacemakers…
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