The World Is Not Enough

(seen at Mike Gingerich's blog)

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I think the underlying anger fueling the protestors comes from their confusing how the world should be with how the world is. When the suffering of others is out-of-sight, out-of-mind, all’s quiet on the western front. But war makes the truth of the world unavoidable and, like someone rudely awakened from a pleasant dream, it makes us angry. But don’t shoot the messenger.

I’m not glad that this war is going on. In fact, it makes me mad. But I’m not mad at the Americans for taking action, I’m mad at the world we live in for making it necessary.