the truth I don't support the War in Iraq. I feel so not because I disagree with it, but because I feel I was lied to by my elected (?) leaders and innocent people have died, and I don't support that. The fact is, I rather do support the fact that Sadam Hussein needed to be ousted, as he was an evil man who performed evil task against innocent people. Yet Saddam was one of many, many evil people in the world that cause harm to fellow human beings. It gets overwhelming when we hear stories of Rwanda, Croatia, North Korea, Haiti, and many other locales across the globe. And the thing to remember is that it is not a current phenomenon; The United States massacred the Native Americans, The Spanish conquered the Americas, The Mongols ravaged Asia. We live in a cruel world, inside and out.
The stories are exponential in number and effect. I'm reminded of them when I meet someone like the people I seem to be meeting on a more regular basis as of lately. They are people who devote their work life to extending two hands out to hopefully assist in picking someone up.

They are people who work for helping strangers, get caught up in standard bureaucracy, but never forget the reason they are doing the work they are doing. I theorize that for every dictator that ever existed there are one hundred people who devote their entire lives not to destruction or ego, but to construction and selflessness. I have no trouble ever appreciating the joys and amazement that is the opportunity to experience life. Nevertheless when I meet people like this, it makes life that much more worth living.  ¶ 2/06/2006 07:45:00 PM