Wise words for foolish times

As bombs continue to fall on the Lebanon, civilians conitnue to die and the international community impotently watches on I read these words from Ben Elton's latest novel 'The First Casualty'...

'Brutality, it is clear, has a cumlative effect on the people who perpetrate it and on those who witness it, it numbs the sense to decency, until in the end it is diufficult to remember what decency was.'

As Martin Luther King once said 'injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.'

We can kid ourselves that this isn't true, but not for long. Given that Jesus taught us to treat others how we ourselves would want to be treated, if you lived in Lebanon what would you want to happen? (not everyone can escape on to a Navy ship)

BTW: Ben Elton's books are always worth a read.