In times of old, The Furies protected Mother Right. If a mother (or any woman) was harmed, The Furies swooped down and took their vengeance. They were one of the last vestiges of a world that existed before the patriarchy. When we feel righteous anger, it is The Furies who are calling out to us to make what is wrong right again.

Friday, November 11, 2005

Eleven Eleven 

It's good on this day especially to hear from those who have gone to war. In an interview with Alternet, returning soldier Zechariah talks about his experiences in Iraq. The comments after the article are illuminating, too—some for their display of ignorance, some for their compassion.

And sad but true, veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistann are showing up in homeless shelters. The casualty figures for U.S. wounded are staggering. The official number is 15,000. Other estimates run it up as high as almost 50,000.

I saw a quote on a blog by someone who said something like you have to fight a war in order to have peace and those people who wanted to pull the troops out of Iraq were not about peace. It just made me furious. War is the first and last resort of those without brains or imagination. You avoid war not by being a coward but by standing up and figuring out a better way to do things. I think the people who fight in wars are often amazing people, but they are doing the bidding of politicians: mostly men who have never been to war. Soldiers don't want to fight "unjust" wars, yet all wars are unjust essentially. In a fair world, in a world which was not dominated by war, EVERYONE would refuse to go to war. WAR IS NEVER EVER THE ONLY OPTION. I remember years ago asking a peace activist what his answer for Hitler would have been. "You never let someone like him get into power," he said. "Yes, but he was in power. Then what do you do?" I asked. I don't remember his answer because we kept talking—he wanted me to get out of my mind rut that there was only ONE answer. As Jeanette Rankin so eloquently stated, "You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake."
Posted by: Kim Antieau / 11/11/2005 07:19:00 PM
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"I saw a quote on a blog by someone who said something like you have to fight a war in order to have peace..."

This reminds me of the saying, "Fighting for peaces is like f__king for virginity, it just does not work."

By Anonymous Steve R, at 2:45 PM  

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