The loving and reassuring messages from our friends around the world
are so much appreciated by all of us.
May I share this quotation which I received from a friend on my
Quaker Women's list?:
Terrorists often claim to be fighting wars,
and to be doing no more than is necessary
in war. This is nonsense. War is certainly
the natural expression of collective resentment;
but it occurs between organised groups and
is fought openly, against a collective enemy.
It is possible to fight a war with undiminished
respect for the rights of the enemy individual.
Indeed, that is the duty of every soldier.
But the terrorist must disregard this duty
and disobey the law of war. His feelings
towards the individual are abolished by his
loathing of the group, and it is this -rather
than his cowardice, cruelty, or intemperate
hate- that constitutes his true moral corruption.
- Roger Scruton (b. 1944), British
philosopher, author.
_Waging War on the Individual,_
Untimely Tracts, St. Martin's (1987).
--
Camilla Flintermann Oxford,OH
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on the web at http://www.geocities.com/camillahf/index.html
And visit the CARE webring at http://www.pdcaregiver.org
"In all beginnings, endings lie enfolded,
implicit and invisible as
roots."
from: "Leaving the
Garden"--CHF
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