>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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn