tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-141808143036488541.post2307613326625002156..comments2019-06-12T02:03:47.899-07:00Comments on Living Nonviolence: Peace is a MotherAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387774648881038785noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-141808143036488541.post-67395739989725492622010-01-10T06:46:47.944-08:002010-01-10T06:46:47.944-08:00Excellent point. Colonization or occupation has a...Excellent point. Colonization or occupation has and continues to destroy so many cultures on the planet. In just 20 years we've reduced Iraq from a thriving cultural center to rubble. A place where women used to enjoy such freedoms, including free education through college level, guaranteed employment after, no enforced curfews or religious codes and now they can't even leave there homes. In 1991 Iraq prided itself on the number of intellectuals per capita, I don't recall the number but it put America to shame. After slowly starving the Iraqis for 10 years, to come in with Shock and Awe was just medieval in it's brutality. How any American could have pride after that still amazes me. And to realize that this is just a continuation of a tradition of colonization started by the British and French, primarily. Thanks for the thoughtful comment.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10387774648881038785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-141808143036488541.post-62195012631936076172010-01-09T21:07:23.431-08:002010-01-09T21:07:23.431-08:00Wow. This would be a powerful piece read by anyone...Wow. This would be a powerful piece read by anyone anywhere, and knowing you and Alexa Rose I am bowled over. Any other outcome to the birth is inconceivable to me and yet, as you go on to tell us, it is quite sadly conceivable, especially in poor countries. Johan Galtung doesn't call them developing, he calls them maldeveloped. He means nations that were Just Fine before colonization, imperialism and the curse of global predatory capitalism, only made possible by an empire of bases. I know these mothers want peace and I wish to join them. Thank you for your sensitive portrait of a birth, bringing you the Alexa who made all that pain worth it, and for the challenge to consider those who suffer even more pain without the beautiful results.Tom H. Hastingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17098260278363929190noreply@blogger.com