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August 1, 2006 at 07:37:13

Painting a Target on Ourselves

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Tired of images of weeping and wailing Iraqi widows? Their mourning is dignified compared to what ours will look like. Bomb us and we'll squeal like pigs.

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Russ Wellen is the nuclear deproliferation editor for OpEdNews. He's also on the staffs of Freezerbox and Scholars & Rogues.

"It's hard to tell people not to smoke when you have a cigarette dangling from your mouth."
-- Mohamed El Baradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency

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A writer is a rogue goose. All other gees fly in a flock formation; every goose knows his place and time for honking. The rogue goose is undisciplined. He leaves the formation indiscriminately to have a look at it from aside. He roams back and forth, takes a peep at the leader, honks a little bit from behind, distracts everyone and writes on what he sees. Time passes and as he wants to return back to his place he discovers someone else there. Thus he either has to wait until they land for rest...

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Mark SashineA writer is a rogue goose. All other gees fly in a flock formation; every goose knows his place and time for honking. The rogue goose is undisciplined. He leaves the formation indiscriminately to have a look at it from aside. He roams back and forth, takes a peep at the leader, honks a little bit from behind, distracts everyone and writes on what he sees. Time passes and as he wants to return back to his place he discovers someone else there. Thus he either has to wait until they land for rest...

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that is exactly right

I concur wholeheartedly. I wonder if there is at least one Church in the US which condemned the aerial bombardment of nay place by our forces and by any forces. If there is any Church which prays for all the dead, not just our dead.

by Mark Sashine (50 articles, 19 quicklinks, 242 diaries, 3434 comments) on Tuesday, August 1, 2006 at 12:32:46 PM

Russ Wellen is the nuclear deproliferation editor for OpEdNews. He's also on the staffs of Freezerbox and Scholars & Rogues."It's hard to tell people not to smoke when you have a cigarette dangling from your mouth."-- Mohamed El Baradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency
Russ WellenRuss Wellen is the nuclear deproliferation editor for OpEdNews. He's also on the staffs of Freezerbox and Scholars & Rogues."It's hard to tell people not to smoke when you have a cigarette dangling from your mouth."-- Mohamed El Baradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency

Compassion = Sympathy AND Empathy

When it comes to compassion, churches, like most individuals, stop at sympathy (also known as lip service). Meanwhile, empathy -- the better part of compassion -- is the province of a gifted few. It's the rare individual (usually a fiction writer or poet) who's willing or able to to put him or herself in the place of someone who, say, has been shot. Using your imagination to experience what it feels like to have a bullet tear through your body is no mean feat.

by Russ Wellen (58 articles, 1029 quicklinks, 66 diaries, 335 comments) on Tuesday, August 1, 2006 at 1:12:21 PM

but there is also such thing as common sense

I hope. And exactly in that article of yours you show perfectly well from the common sense perspective what awaits us if we accept the killing of civilians as normal. Churches will also be destroyed, right? So why is that they do not at least behave pragmatically?

by Mark Sashine (50 articles, 19 quicklinks, 242 diaries, 3434 comments) on Tuesday, August 1, 2006 at 1:32:50 PM

Okay by Me

Churches being destroyed, that is. But I hadn't thought of that, Mark. Sometimes I wonder if I'm making too big a deal over killing. It doesn't seem to bother a lot of people. Even maybe their own deaths.

by Russ Wellen (58 articles, 1029 quicklinks, 66 diaries, 335 comments) on Tuesday, August 1, 2006 at 1:59:26 PM

'Hamish ' is an antiwar writer socialist- scientist and musician living in Scotland.
Hamish'Hamish ' is an antiwar writer socialist- scientist and musician living in Scotland.

Good article

I cringe over Dresden..Feb 45 for goodness sake..the war in Europe was over..what on earth did we think we were doing?

Hiroshima .. as a threat to Russia...absolutely excellent point.
Best Wishes

by Hamish (45 articles, 0 quicklinks, 68 diaries, 210 comments) on Tuesday, August 1, 2006 at 10:48:06 PM