[Sri Ramakrishna] Digest Number 902

[Guest guest]

Dear Bradley: I have been asking myself the same question, what the best way

to deal with this atrocity. when You hear about military action, you wonder

against who? This crime was not directly committed by a nation or a

traditional army. who are you going to defeat? When would you know that war

is over? Crime is committed by a wirped philosophy. Its in the mind of the

person committing the crime. He wears no uniform. How are we going to look in

the mind and soul of the perpetrators of this heinous act? Killing them will

have no deterrent effect since these are suicidal people. Who is there

leader? Even if we kill the leader another will take its place. We cannot

destroy their weapon because it can be anything. We cannot stop them coming

to our nation either because there is no ID. Look at what is happening with

Israel and PLO. No one is winning. Terrorism continues. We need to find out

the situations, causes that seeds these peoples mind for such violence. There

is much fear of unknown, prejudice, intolerance, etc., and some people use

these sentiments to turn these people into killers for their own agenda. I

have a friend from Syria who told me that these are mostly the most poor,

uneducated unwanted lots and are very dangerous as well as very unreasonable.

I wonder instead of sending military with Guns, can we send people to

understand these people so that we can eradicate this phenomenon from it's

root rather than do some cosmetic surgery by doing some show of military

action since people want it. Don't get me wrong. I am just as hurt and angry

as any other.

Anup