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worlds, that our country has destroyed?
For every U.S. soldier we lost, our military killed not two or five or 10; but from 500 to 1,000 Iraqis. The numbers alone should give us pause.
Yes, Saddam Hussein was, and still is, a terrible problem; but one we should not compound by more violence, by sowing more chaos and bitterness; and by selling still more arms to that troubled region.
As Nol Putnam said (March 28 issue), the issue of violence is complex. It derives from many planes. I’d like to mention two.
Psychologist John Bradshaw has been drawing our attention to the wounded child probably within each of us. When we learn how to heal the inner child the need to participate in violence dissipates.
On a societal plane, the expanding economy - to which every nation in the world is committed - makes both war and planetary pollution inevitable. As long as we work for wages and profits, the economy must expand. If, with a guaranteed income, we were free to work only to benefit each other, or to develop our special vocational talents, the economy would not have to expand.
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