A Sensitive Conscience

The way some people treated prisoners in Iraq would be shocking if it were not happening in war time. Even now it is a sickening sight for us in America to see.

I like to think that Americans are always wise, pure, humble and sensitive. The truth is, we are not. Especially in war time. War is brutal, evil and terrible. Unfortunately it is also sometimes necessary.

Ghandi overthrew the Brits with peaceful means because they had a sensitive conscience and were embarrassed by hqaving to fight peaceful people.

The same tactics were used by Rev Martin Luther King to confront racism in America and he won becaue we have a Judao-Christian ideal about right and wrong.

Even when we violate that ideal we feel badly, and guilty when we are caught. The same approach did not work with Hitler, Stalin or Saddam because they have no spiritual ideals. They have a calllous conscience and simply killed those who tried to disagree.

Hamas, Al Queda, and the other Muslim murderers will not be overcome by peaceful means. They kill pregnant women and little children in cold blood. Yet, the TV stations and papers in the Middle East show no outrage. They have no sensitive conscience.

The fact that American politicians and media condemn even the rather mild "torture" of iraqi prisoners shows that our nation still has some vestiges of biblical values and that is a good thing. I am happy we are shocked by mistreatment but even more resolved to stop the terrorists who are not shocked when their own people slaughter innocents.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you