As we drift pass another week in which we commemorate the tragedy of our
3000 plus citizens who died Sept. 11, 2001, now 14 years ago, is it possible we
can begin to examine more deeply why that happened, and awaken to the fact that
more than a million,
mostly Muslims, have met a war-on-terror death since? Were we just asleep at the wheel when mostly
Saudi teams [our best Arab-state friends] commandeered four super-jets to point
them at four of the most important buildings in America? Why then, did we shift so swiftly from a
hasty Afghanistan invasion, to a massive shock and awe attack on Iraq, which
had nothing at all to do with wounding us on 9-11? It’s impossible for me to believe as some do,
that our government planned to kill its own people, but the manipulation of
these events has had terrible effects.
“CBS
News has learned that barely five hours after American Airlines Flight 77
plowed into the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld was telling his
aides to come up with plans for striking Iraq — even though there was no
evidence linking Saddam Hussein to the attacks.” Sept 4, 2002
The answers to these questions are crucial to our future as
a nation, yet will be difficult, and slow in coming. But already the consequences of our
war-on-terror-anywhere response to 9-11, are unrelenting and tragic. Together with the power elites committed to
warfare in many countries and factions [Russia, China, France, Israel, Iran, Saudi
Arabia, India, England...to name a few] we are helping plunge the world into
ever widening violent disasters: the first
one post 9-11 = Afghanistan; then Iraq, then Libya, then Syria, then Ukraine, now
Yemen [with Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria as constant sad baselines]. None of these are even close to peaceful
resolution, but instead pervasive magnets for weapons and warriors, provided by
almost every nation with a robust military industry, ours being the most powerful.
CBS News report Jan 29, 2002
As in the Port Huron Times Herald - Sept. 8, 2015
Where do all of these waves of refugees come from? Never since the cataclysm of WWII have so
many been swept away homeless. They come
from the all these wars and destroyed economies we have been intimately
involved in. I do hope that when Pope
Francis comes to visit soon, that he calls on our government and the faithful,
as he has towards Europe, to open our hearts and borders to these millions who’ve
lost their homes to war. May we be
called to heed the warning of Luke’s
gospel, chapter 16, {the rich man and Lazarus at his gate} and tear down
our walls, and gates – beating our swords into plowshares so all may have good
work and be fed.
References
“Human rights groups say that, for the foreseeable
future, there is every reason to expect migrants from Syria and other countries
in crisis to descend on Europe in ever greater numbers. In Syria alone, 11 million people have been displaced by war, seven
million within the country’s borders and four million outside, mostly to
Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan.”
“Critics Push U.S.
to Help Europe by Taking More Refugees”
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