[Sca-cooks] Re: Horrified

[Elaine Koogler]

And, judging from the responses from China and Russia which have been reported by
NBC news, it looks like they've not only managed to awaken a "sleeping giant" (the
US), but a bear and a dragon as well!  I gather that most of the civilized world
is outraged by this act.

Kiri

Phil & Susan Troy wrote:

> >I think it is safe to say that in addition to being horrified that something
> >like this could happen in the good ol' US of A, many of us and our brothers
> >and sisters in the Military are also outraged and want to invoke the laws of
> >Karma as well. I know I certainly would like to get my hands and claws on the
> >lunatic who ordered this. I know I could make him suffer until the GODS turn
> >from him in horror. Maybe this is a bit over the top seeming, but I can't
> >help it right now.
>
> Anger understood. It needs to be understood and remembered, though,
> that the laws of karma, the real ones, anyway, differ from the laws
> of vengeance in that you/they/our military might not necessarily be
> the instrument of karmic retribution. Sometimes anger is good, and
> hate in this case is at least understandable, but they need to be
> controlled. if only because that will make retribution, if it is in
> our hands, more effective.
>
> My eighty-three-year-old mother, one of the few truly devout
> Christians I've met, who taught me the difference between anger and
> hate, and who taught me to deplore actions, not people, told me
> yesterday that what we need to do is fix it so that we can all go to
> our world maps with a little pair of sewing scissors and carefully
> remove Afghanistan, the entire country, from all our maps. The bottom
> line is that yes, your anger is understandable, too.
>
> One thing I'd like to point out, writing as I am from within sight of
> the wreckage of downtown Manhattan's financial district, is that this
> attack was intended to cripple our country's banks and stock markets,
> our government, and to completely demoralize and terrorize our people
> into utter immobility. For all the lives so basely taken, for all the
> valued property destroyed, and for all the stress our innocent people
> have borne, it needs to be realized that THIS ATTACK WAS A FAILURE in
> the long run.
>
> We have been stung by insects just about as hard as they were able
> to, but we will swat them.
>
> Adamantius
> --
> Phil & Susan Troy
>
> troy at asan.com
>
> "It was so blatant that Roger threw at him.  Clemens gets away with
> things that get other people thrown out of games.  As long as they
> let him get away with it, it's going  to continue." -- Joe Torre, 9/98
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