I receive several comments and mails urging me to forgive. I have nothing against forgiveness. Forgiveness frees. However I do have a problem and am stuck...so maybe you can help me. How on earth does one forgive when the slight, abuse, humiliation, cruelty, destruction, annihilation is ongoing....Day in, day out. How? Forgiveness necessitates truce, a time out, a moment of peace... Forgiveness necessitates distance from the predator, from the abuser.It also needs a time of healing. It needs amends, corrections, rectifications, for all the damage. How on earth can you expect anyone to forgive when none of the above conditions are there? And moreover, why do you expect me, us, Iraqis to forgive you when there is no intention or change of course on your part? What are we supposed to do with our dead ones, our injured ones, our memories, our lost hopes, our vanished dreams? What are we supposed to do with our exile, our losses, our uprootedness? And even if we suddenly metamorphose into s
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The rest is a deafening silence.
Hopefully your readers will take the time to view the photo essay prepared by the Iraqi Resistance response to the US preemtpive invasion of Iraq. This essay was prepared in 2005.
Many folks have opined that all presidential candidates and those being recruited for military service should be required to view this essay. I agree.
Fortunately, you do not mince words and it follows that the Iraqi Resistance does not either.
http://johnmccarthy90066.tripod.com/id362.html
All good wishes to you. Stay strong.
Bests,
John