I was totally against us going to war with Iraq. We held a day of prayer in our church and gave everyone a candle to light as they sat in their pew. People I had never seen in church before arrived and stayed in the silence with heads bowed.
Tony Blair told us about the Iraqis weapons of mass destruction. This was a lie. There were none.
Now we have been given a just cause to support.....to prevent Assad from using chemical weapons against his own people.
But no matter how just, have we the moral right to join in with Trumps threats ?
The last time I felt such danger in the air was during the Cuban crisis when I prayed at my sleeping children’s beds, frightened by the thought of the danger nuclear war would bring to us all.
Today waging war by tweet is looking not only possible but probable.
Has the whole world gone mad?
Teresa May is considering joining in and is bringing her ministers back to Parliament early.
Starting a war didn’t do Blair any good. In fact it contributed to the rise of Isis and all the horrors that came with it.
We are all horrified by the use of chemical warfare in Syria..but how would bombing them make it any better?
My grandad, gassed during the First World War suffered its consequences for his whole life and finally died choking whilst I was with him.
It is an inhuman way of conducting war. But so is sending missiles to bomb the perpetrators.
Threats carried via tweet are bringing us closer to a catastrophe that no one wants...
You will not be surprised to learn that I am praying once again. Lord hear our prayer.
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2 comments:
I agree absolutely with you on this one Jean. No-one will benefit from yet more bombing. How on earth have we never managed to learn that voilence begets violence?
Diplomacy, informed debate and world-wide participation in finding a solution is the only way any acceptable end can be brought to this latest horror.
Feeling sick and horrified and helpless in the face of these attacks is not a licence to return evil with evil.
I am against war, even though I have been in one. Most veterans are pacifist. Proud of their service, but many are damaged by what they've seen and experienced. Towards the end of my military career, I was involved in recruiting young people for the military machine, and I was also honest and frank in telling them, that at some point, they'd find themselves in a war zone, whether we were there to keep the peace, we'd soon become the target.
I don't agree with the threats made by Trump, urged on by his cheer leaders, but I also don't agree that Assad, backed by the Russians should be allowed to kill his own people, using WMD - what I can't understand is the Russians actually condoning it, or even perhaps implicated in it. Their need to be seen as a world power seems purely due to the inflated ego of Putin.
I don't have any answers, but for the government to engage in warfare, without parliamentary authority is a disgrace. I thought the the so called Royal Perogative had been shot down by the Brexit vote?
And I am frustrated by the UN, why is Russia on the Security Council, giving them power to veto any proposition to take action on a multi-lateral basis. Kick them off and the UN will than be free to both condemn and take the united action against Assad that is needed. Starting him of the resources military and economic that allows him to pursue his war would be one way. He should be tried at an international court and given the punishment that his evil deserves.
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