Just A Thought ~ ALAS, IT’S THERE IN US, TOO

"If only it were all so simple, if only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being, and who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?"

~ Alexander Solzhenitsen, ex-Soviet Union Dissident Author, 1918 ~

The war on terrorism is terrorism (fighting fire with fire). Day by day, we see faces of innocent people who have lost loved ones in bombings and shootings. Does an Iraqi mother feel less pain than an American mother when her child dies? Can we write off the deaths as 'collateral damage' and still claim the moral high-ground? We have not outgrown barbarism; there are still elements of it in us.