Qana, Lebanon
"Over fifty people, more than half of them children were killed today in the Lebanese town of Qana.
I don't understand, how does bombing a country into oblivion change people's opinions? How does killing civilians stop terrorists from killing your civilians?
It would appear that Israel, by carrying out such actions, is leaving itself little room to accuse or condemn terrorists for the same kind of unjustified behaviour. The civilians of Israel and Lebanon are not the villians here, the men in power, whether elected or not, are the bad guys.
Perhaps it is time to change how we settle disputes. Maybe instead of guns and rockets, we should actually sit down and talk to each other. Not those men in power but the women and children of the world. Perhaps they should decide how disputes are settled. Maybe then we would have peace", I whisper.
Are you listening?
posted by Alisa @ 11:12 PM
5 comments
5 Comments:
Are you saying that we should sit and talk in the same way, like US went all the ay to Aghanistan for Peace talks and like Pakistan is rgulaly sending it's angels to kashmir for.
NO!!! I am saying that if the women on both sides of the conflicts held the reins of power, I do not believe that we would have the conflicts we have today. I believe women settle problems without the male drive to violence. Men seem to respond to any differences of opinions by a gut reaction to lash out whereas women don't. I will say that this is a generalization, some women are violent, some men aren't, but in general they do respond differently.
US had the courage to correct an international rogue state (Afghanistan) but we dont even have the courage and political will to correct Gujarat a state within India. What we need in India is a impartial judicial system where SIMI & RSS should be equally punished for their hardline thinking.
I think if we socialized our boy children to be compassionate and empathetic, instead of teaching them to suppress their emotions and "stand up for themselves", men would be able to govern as peacefully as any women. It's not necessarily so much an inherent trait of men, as the way we teach them to behave.
But that's just my opinion. :)
Plus, I think that if women held all the power, we would have a whole different set of problems. (But an equal share would be nice.)
Tori
Thanks for the feedback. I don't know anything at all about the problems in India. I would love to know more, any websites you could post?
Tori, I agree with you but it will only work if ALL of the world works on it. I have a son and a daughter and they are very different. Both however are or have been very subsceptable to what society teaches over what I taught them. My son, at 3 said girls couldn't drive cars, even though he only knew women who drove (there were no men in his life at that point), girls also could only be nurses, not doctors, even though his doctor was a female. I couldn't believe it. Now he does march to his own drum, but not back then. My daughter on the other hand has been a strong individual her whole life and doesn't live her life to please anyone, except when it comes to dress and "social" behaviour about men. Then she doesn't listen to me and wants to fit in with all her friends. I hope that as more and more parents bring their children up to be individuals instead of followers it will become easier for people not to care about "social" norms and to act on their own personal believes for a better society. My rant for the day!!!
Thanks for posting.
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