Sat here on a damp, dreary Saturday with the news full of the Paris atrocities and feeling a bit down despite the fact it's my birthday.
I'm fed up with our governments getting involved in situations in the Middle East that they don't see through to a sensible conclusion. If we're going to encourage Syria's opposition parties to rebel against Assad, the we should help them to achieve their and our stated aim, which is to remove Assad from power, not leave them in the lurch thus creating a power vacuum that Isis can just walk into. If we're not prepared to help them, we shouldn't encourage them.
I'm fed up with extremists of all faiths (and I include Christians) thinking that their way is the only way, and if you don't agree you get blown up or shot. This applies just as much to a family planning clinic in the Bible belt of the USA being attacked as it does a concert hall in Paris.
But most of all I'm fed up with all the garbage that will be spouted about curbing civil liberties to keep the peace, about how all immigrants are terrorists, about how the only answer is for our political parties to lurch even further to the right.
I don't have any answers but I thought the image below summed up pretty much how I feel.
I'm fed up with our governments getting involved in situations in the Middle East that they don't see through to a sensible conclusion. If we're going to encourage Syria's opposition parties to rebel against Assad, the we should help them to achieve their and our stated aim, which is to remove Assad from power, not leave them in the lurch thus creating a power vacuum that Isis can just walk into. If we're not prepared to help them, we shouldn't encourage them.
I'm fed up with extremists of all faiths (and I include Christians) thinking that their way is the only way, and if you don't agree you get blown up or shot. This applies just as much to a family planning clinic in the Bible belt of the USA being attacked as it does a concert hall in Paris.
But most of all I'm fed up with all the garbage that will be spouted about curbing civil liberties to keep the peace, about how all immigrants are terrorists, about how the only answer is for our political parties to lurch even further to the right.
I don't have any answers but I thought the image below summed up pretty much how I feel.
I Think Martin Luther King has it about right!
Happy Birthday, Peter! Thanks for the heads-up on the blog on you know where... Yupp, as I get older (and maybe not much wiser) I too, become more and more intolerant of intolerance. Yours aye and with my prayers, Cornelius.
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