august 8th, 2006

they are back ! the family who went back to lebanon to attend a family wedding and got trapped there. the morning they were to leave for damascus, the only bridge linking the highway was bombed. they managed to find another route and escaped. i am so relieved. my feelings are that of a by stander . they must be so relieved to be enroute home. and yet they leave family behind.
i feel so helpless. what has this world become? where has civility gone? why is my country condoning the bombing of innocent children? what is this "measured response" that prime minister harper speaks of? why are we not screaming for an immediate cease fire?
i'm trying to make sense of this senseless bombing of airports, bridges, schools, hospitals. how can a civilized nation condone such atrocities?
it is a dark time. where is the light? don't they understand that violence begets violence . and that generations to come will want retribution for these injuries.
how did we make such a mess of things.