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Read my writing and clicked my clipping, now it's time to hear me rambling... To be frank, I'm too lazy to sit in front of computer writing stuff. This might be the perfect solution, so listen...
I haven't had the chance to integrate the overall site style into the ramblinglogue section yet. It will be done soon... hopefully.
Nick Berg, 26, a contractor from West Chester, PA was decaptitated by Islamic Extremist recently. I watched the video this morning and I was beyond being shocked. Nothing can be more barbaric than what those hooded people have done to a human being.
We have learned in history lessons and book how much pain and ugliness war bring to the world. We might all have thought things like that would not happen again because we all learned some painful lessons from it. But since the war started, my bubbles has been bursted many times. Innocent people's lives are taken away in God's name. Is that painful? Yes. But even worse, it's the attitude some of people are having make it more painful and sad. They don't care and violence is the only venue for them to "solve" problems.
I thought there is no more bubbles left in my mind about the status of the world. Guess what? Wrong again. When I hear the shrieks from Nick, I'm outraged, horrified, and more importantly extremely sad, for him, for the barbarians who have done such an ungodly deed. There are a few times in my life that I felt like there are no words to describe what I feel. This is one of them.
Some people think this horrible incident will make Bush's anti-terrorism war legitimate. No, absolutely not. Without the bully policy from Bush and his administration, this will not happen to Nick Berg. Bush has done everything he is capable of doing to make more enemies. If the reasoning that his purpose is for oil, the price is too big. If the reason that he went to war is for terrorism, the price is even bigger. An eye for an eye, Bush and his people need to understand the logic of the basic text from his holy book.
September 11 is a sad day, the days when Iraqi soldiers are abused are sad days, the days when Daniel Pearl (2002) and Nick Berg (2004) are beheaded are sad days. It's sad because the behaviors are beyond comprehension and inhumane. For those who died during this war, I pray for you to have peace in heaven when you cannot have peace on earth.
I'm listening to U2's Peace on Earth. It has a fairy tale feel at this moment.
Peace On Earth
by U2Heaven on Earth, we need it now
I'm sick of all of this hanging around
Sick of sorrow, sick of the pain
I'm sick of hearing again and again
That there's gonna be peace on EarthWhere I grew up there weren't many trees
Where there was we'd tear them down
And use them on our enemies
They say that what you mock
Will surely overtake you
And you become a monster
So the monster will not break youAnd it's already gone too far
Who said that if you go in hard
You won't get hurt?Jesus can you take the time
To throw a drowning man a line
Peace on Earth
Tell the ones who hear no sound
Whose sons are living in the ground
Peace on Earth
No whos or whys
No one cries like a mother cries
For peace on Earth
She never got to say goodbye
To see the color in his eyes
Now he's in the dirt
Peace on EarthThey're reading names out over the radio
All the folks the rest of us won't get to know
Sean and Julia, Gareth and Ann and Breda
Their lives are bigger than any big ideaJesus can you take the time
To throw a drowning man a line
Peace on Earth
To tell the ones who hear no sound
Whose sons are living in the ground
Peace on Earth
Jesus sing a song you wrote
The words are sticking in my throat
Peace on Earth
Hear it every Christmas time
But hope and history won't rhyme
So what's it worth
This peace on EarthPeace on Earth
Peace on Earth
Peace on Earth
