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2003-03-26 - 9:02 a.m. I am honestly scared about the things happening in the world these days. One of my dear friends, who's a teacher posted a horrifying story about an Iraqi student of hers who has disappeared. Because of the war? Who knows, but the circumstances are chilling. She continues by writing that the teachers at her school have been ORDERED (not asked) not to voice anti-war sentiments in class. And that there is now a statewide initiative to take all social studies out of the core curriculum save for American History and to replace it with foreign language. This scares me! We all know that history repeats itself, and the only way to at least TRY to limit these repetitions is knowledge about what has happened in the world in the past, in order to discover repeating patterns, and hopefully changing directions before it is too late. I am both anti-war and anti-Saddam Hussein. I think Bush as well as Toni Blair and the Danish Prime minister (who allowed Denmark to be included in the war, despite the majority of the population being against) are making a huge mistake. I realize that war may be the only way to get rid of Saddam Hussein, and in that case, it may be the right thing to do. I just want to be certain that this war is being waged because of the right reasons, and not just because some big jocks are on a power-trip. As you will know if you've been reading my journal - I am a Christian, I have a strong faith, I know my Bible. I find the current world situation absolutely TERRIFYING because it could be seen as the beginning of the end. Hear me out, I'd hate for you to think of me as a religious freak. I do NOT mean to say I KNOW that is what is going on... not even that I THINK it is... ... but it could be. And that's what leaves me in tears after reading stories such as the one mentioned above.
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