>Dear Camilla: I have long counted you a dear friend,
>although we have never met, and the conscience of the List.
>It is complicated, isn't it? All wars are hideous and in
>all wars innocents die. THAT is the REAL dilemma, isn't it,
>how to engage in the inherently inhumane act of war,
>without forfeiting your humanity?

Indeed---you put it very well.  I know you are stressed and hurting
in many ways, and I wish I could be there to give you a BIG HUG and
maybe a dish of Haagen Daas ? (sp)  Try to take a few deep breaths
and calm yourself, for in order to face what may lie ahead, calm will
be needed at times.  I recall how we demonized the Kaiser (though I
wasn't born yet), Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito---now the
demon-face is bin Laden.  We seem to need to do this to the enemy
before we can attack--just as they in turn have done it to us.  I
have said what I needed to say, claptrap or not, and I am sorry if
you were in ANY way personally offended, for you ARE my dear
friend,--and here's that HUG, even if it has to be virtual---

                {{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{CAROLE-GRINCH}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}

Please try to be good to yourself----, with much love, Camilla


>And the children. Of course we have all seen  them in their
>streets celebrating death. So sad to be so young and so
>full of hate. (Although he recruits the poor and
>disadvantaged to die for his cause, Bin Laden, as you know,
>comes from a priviledged background and does not wish to
>die anytime soon, as he adhers to the maxim that it's hard
>to hit a moving target.)It reminds of the stories about the
>children sent to lure soldiers into booby-traps during that
>last horrible war in Viet Nam. I have 3 sons and a nephew
>of draftable age and, as it is the children who fight all
>wars, I am so stressed this week that my PD symptoms seemed
>to have tripled. So, dear friend,before Mr. PD does me in,
>I need to take a break from this topic and do something
>that relaxes me. If I could just remember  what that is...
>Carole

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