Great quote

[gridlore]

In a recent interview, General Norman Schwartzkof was ask if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harbored and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks on America.

His answer:

"I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is to arrange the meeting"

Comments

[bunyip.livejournal.com]

I like it. :)

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

I rank it up there with Gen. George Patton's "The job of the American soldier is to give the other S.O.B. a chance to die for his country."

[sossity.livejournal.com]

i believe that forgiveness begins on a personal level. if every person who was offended, forgave, then vengeance would be obsolete.

there is also much more to the story. one side of the conflict says harboring terrorists, another side of the conflict says honoring hospitality according to their culture.

i cannot say whether one or another is more or less right. and i don't believe that anyone else can, either.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

The problem here is that the people who did this thing aren't interesting in forgivness. Their stated goal is to kill all Americans. Men, women, children, black, white, Christian.. even Muslims who aren't part of their jihad are to be killed.

How are we supposed to reason with that? What they are doing goes so far outside the actual teaching of the Koran that it is obvious that this has trancended religion on become a movement on its own.

Sometimes, madness needs to be out down before it kills. We did it in the 1940s. We need to do it now