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In
my lifetime there has been no peace, but there was always
a constant unextinguished glimmer of hope. Hope for the
possibility of world peace. Maybe we were naive to believe
if we marched enough miles, in enough countries, if we
sang enough peace songs, lit enough candles and prayed
enough prayers that the wars might stop. That governments
would cease destroying one another. Maybe we were naive
to believe that there was a possibility of peace, maybe
not in our future, but for our childrens' future. This
is why we did it. This is why we marched and prayed. This
was the driving force behind the songs and candles. |
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But
the world as we once knew it has now dramatically and
tragically changed. |
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We
can never return to the past with its faults, with its
clumsiness and possibilities and to whatever potential
that past may have offered. To whatever possibilities
for peace that may have existed. Whether we agreed on
the faults of this world, whether we have collectively
agreed on its inadequacies and unfairness, its questionable
past and the possibilities for its future, with the belligerent
US attack on the country of Iraq and on its people —
a war without UN approval, a war despite the open objections
of the UN, despite the objections of the Vatican, despite
the objections of the Pope himself, despite the objections
of the majority of the western world, despite the objections
of middle eastern countries, the objections of third world
countries and second world countries, despite the objections
of millions, possibly billions of world citizens —
the US has unilaterally, tragically and irrevocably changed
the face of the world forever. We can never go back now.
We are trapped in the vision of a policy that is destined
for failure.
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Our
future has been changed and with it the future of the
world. George Bush and his US cowboy style policy makers
who have promised to bomb the bejesus out of Iraq have
single-handedly changed our world forever. And not for
the better. That future will not be one paved with world
peace. With security for everyone. For anyone. It will
not be a future filled with kindness. |
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The rage of the world has been ignited. How could it be
otherwise? |
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