another way to observe the threat of war

[iamom]

The patient person is one who can see the overall event, that things change, move and flow. What seems so terrible today may seem quite all right tomorrow or next month or next year. What was so urgently required and needed a year ago makes absolutely no difference today. In this manner one pays non-judgmental attention to whatever is happening. If it isn’t exactly as one had hoped it could be, all of it is looked upon as just part of the flux and the flow.
--Ayya Khema
From the book, Being Nobody Going Nowhere, published by Wisdom Publications, Boston

Okay -- I guess this too is all just part of the flux and flow. Nevertheless, I plan to write to my Member of Parliament and the Prime Minister this week to voice my dissent against going to war against Iraq. I'm not even supportive if the UN Security Council agrees to do it -- nobody has made a strong enough case for it in my opinion. I'm not convinced that this has anything to do with a humanitarian desire to disarm a dictator -- it's seems much more likely to be motivated by an American desire to protect its oil interests.