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Wednesday, May 13
My Local Newspaper Slammed Terrorism, But Did Not Condemn War
by
Nancy Pace
on Wed 13 May 2009 04:02 PM EDT
(excerpt): In reference to your February 18th editorial, “Terrifying Reminder," war harms millions more innocents than terrorism does, so can we save some of our righteous indignation for war, too? (excerpt): To all war’s victims on all sides—dead soldiers and their broken-hearted families, the maimed and their caretakers, all whose love, energy, money and talents are wasted on destruction—war is as senseless and cruel as terrorism. (excerpt): We cannot prevent all injustices, but we can avoid adding to their sum. more »
Dialogue and Discernment
by
Nancy Pace
on Wed 13 May 2009 03:08 PM EDT
(Excerpt): For instance, thanks to our current civic dialogue on torture, we now realize that the decision to torture, like the decision to go to war, only seems “simple” when we see “others” as “not-us,” “different,” and in terms of “us/them;” the decision to torture is infinitely more complicated when we view all people as valuable, “us,” “ours,” one community. We’ve also learned that torture undermines founding American principles of respect and support for human life, is often counterproductive, ineffective, unreliable, and misleading, endangers our own imprisoned soldiers, weakens our alliances, and creates endless new enemies. more »
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