For the life of me I can't understand some people. I try and try, but still don't have a clue. Take for example a man who said of the newest incident of air terrorism that we should just profile people. Yes, that is what he said, profile people. If you have an Islamic last name and come from a country that is known for Islamic extremism, then you will have to go through a lot more security than say an elderly woman from Fargo.
I understand his outrage at an elderly woman from Fargo going through so much security to go visit her grandchildren in Minneapolis, but how do we tell every Muslim that they will have to go through more trouble at airports than a white Scandinavian from the upper Midwest? How do we say, "sorry, you will have to be detained for several hours while we look up your history, but Mrs. Svenningson you can just walk on through?"
Our problem is that everything we do is reactionary. We don't do anything to stop the hatred that some people feel toward our country. We continue to drop bombs thinking that will solve all our problems. We continue to set up governments that are not only illegal, but also corrupt. We continue to not see the problem is not other people, it is in ALL people, including us.
We still think that violence will answer all our problems when Jesus said non violent love is the answer. We still think that the country with the most expensive military toys and the biggest budget for their military will be the winner, but fail to see that in the end, that country loses. It loses in the eyes of other countries who have no money even for food. It looses in the eyes of its own citizens being thought of as materialist devils. It looses in the eyes of God who cries when we spend $5000 for a hammer or $1,ooo,000 for a missile when 20,000 children die every day from starvation related illnesses.
For the life of me, I don't understand our priorities.
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