Violence, like a multi-headed hydra, surrounds us.
In one sad week we had a mass shooting at Virginia Tech, USA that rivaled Australia’s notorious Port Arthur massacre; more suicide bombers in Baghdad, Iraq; the Palestine/Israel violence took the life of a kidnapped BBC journalist; and preparations for Australia’s (and New Zealand’s) observations of ANZAC Day […]

There has been a lot of comment over the last couple of days about the hanging of Saddam Hussein.  Some of it has even penetrated the busyness of the season to resonate a little.  I have been reflecting a little on a photo that was on the age website (which I now cannot find).  It […]

Alan in the comments points out this article:
“Church of England bishops are calling for Christian leaders to apologize publicly, at a gathering attended by senior Muslims, for the war in Iraq.
Acknowledging that the British government is unlikely to apologize for the “gravely mistaken” war, the bishops suggest that churches should do so by making a […]

Still up for debate/discussion and the many arguments that surround the missing wmd’s in Iraq? Then head over to roadtosurfdom as Tim links up a great resource from Dr Glen Rangwala, who is an independent analyst at the University of Cambridge, UK. Dr Rangwala has attempted to match up the pre-war utterings of the key […]

Turn it off. Read the paper. Find another news outlet. Just stop watching Fox News. That is my advice to the anonmyous commenter on one of my past blog entries who wrote:
are you kidding me. how can you total fools say that jesus or anyone else can be against this war.we were directly attacked on […]

Apparantly, Bremer is another one of those disgruntled employees of the Bush Administration that we shouldn’t listen to. I think we now need to start questioning the management style of President Bush. He obviously isn’t treating his staff very well.

The head of the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq, Paul Bremer, warned six months before the […]

This article by Bob Herbert sums it up pretty well.

This is the height of absurdity.
One of the things I remember from my time in the service many years ago was the ubiquitous presence of large posters with the phrase, in big block letters: Know Your Enemy.
This is a bit of military wisdom that seems to […]

As I continue to read Walter Wink’s book on Engaging the powers, I did a search on the net for some other Wink articles. I came across this article which I thought sums up some of his thinking well.
At the moment pacifism is getting a bad name. Anything other than a war mongering violent approach […]

Our Man of Steel is not going to be happy. Anyone know where a full transcript of the speech can be found?

Read this challenge this morning in the paper about the treatment of Saddam Hussein:

Would not the evil of Hussein’s actions be highlighted if, rather than an eye for an eye, he were accorded respect, courtesy and a just and fair trial. He must be brought to account. All fair-thinking people would concur. But demeaning television […]