Friday, September 10, 2004

The battle for compassion

The Oz Blog world is rampant with "I'm more compassionate than you". The left wing template resembles my stupid post below by targeting the coalition and naively trying to pin the embassy bombing on Howard THEN clumsily adding compassion for those who died. The right wing template gets free brownie points for pointing this hypocrisy out and claiming the compassionate high ground THEN clumsily adding compassion for those who died. Amongst all this are the idiots thanking every God there is that Aussies were generally spared and the pseudo-compassionate who manage to treat this as the tragedy it is and don't bring politics into it. However, I have yet to come across actual compassion, a sign of which would be the lack of religious blame. J.I, who have claimed responsibility are not Islamists. They are terrorists. Their target is innocence and the world (myself included) simply does not learn from history and allows innocence to be the victim.

The world is under the thumb of those that use violence as an answer to violence. The terrorists once asked the question. Now, pre-emptive questions are the preferred answer.

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