New words have entered the traditional Cdn’s vocabulary of late and all seem to add up to a level of bewilderment not seen by this writer for a thousand years. These words include Hamas, Taliban, Al Kite-ah! Sunni, Shite (sp?), Fatah, insurgents; and then phrases and acronyms like suicide bomber, IED’s (improvised explosive device – true sneekiness) and collateral damage (costing zillions more lives than 9/11) while still looking for 6.5 foot Osama-been-there-before; and the stories of heroes at war are now scripted very differently or buried in terms like Friendly Fire. The word Christ obviously got lost in this new vocabulary among all these insurgents and God-Lovers. Allah be praised and blah blah boom boom. How endlessly and mortally exasperating and why for the love of Allah are not moderate Muslims striving every day to end this brtual, life-sucking nonsense? It’s really up to them to speak that language.
Only through communication and the courage of commitment to the holiness of life will this profoundly grievous warring in the Middle East of Nowhere ever end.
But hey: they’re buying Ipods and tuning out over there too. So much for communication and hope. Humanity rots on the vine of our indifference to each other as we pass by on the sidewalks sneering because we have the latest tune-out device plugged into our heads.
Gooda-lucka.
And wait till the chaos comes here to Vancouver – which previewed its emergency awareness during the drinking water “crisis” of last year. Instant panic. If the Taliban suicidalists make their threat true to visit Canada watch for new levels of frenzy among us, the sophisticated and sneering and woefully unprepared - for the lack of any real moral commitment to anything.
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