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I WISH I COULD

This summer as I was walking on a beach that has passed into memory, I caught myself dreaming.  I was daydreaming a wish, that somehow I could find a genie to liberate from a bottle; like in the mythical land of Ali Baba

What would I wish for? Thought I.

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While Bush was on vacation

Wind and rain, lots and lots of rain, and water came rushing in, within minutes rising by feet at a time.  People drowned, hundreds of thousands lost their homes, and America lost New Orleans.  What happened? Or should we ask ourselves why did it happen this way?  Levees that kept the sea out failed because they were not strong enough to hold back the water.  Why, because the money that was supposed to be used to fix the levees, which was put aside during the Clinton administration, was taken by Bush in 2003 and used instead for the Iraq war. 

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2000 Too Many

Think back to the end of 1999. Millions of people were afraid of the coming New Year. 2000. Y2K. People were afraid that power would fail, that bombs would be unleashed at random, that chaos would reign in the streets. As it turned out, though, nothing much happened. Midnight struck, the calendar clicked over to a new year, a new decade, a new century, a new (some would say) millennium, and life went on as normal.

Now we have reached another 2000. Iraq 2K. Two thousand of our soldiers killed in Iraq. Our administrative power has failed; bombs are being unleashed, seemingly at random; chaos is reigning in the streets of Iraq and our global relationships have been torn asunder. This is the 2000 we should be afraid of. This is the 2000 we must grieve, honor and reflect upon.

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The Alternative

In our last issue, Leonard Manfred, my colleague and friend, wrote an interesting editorial entitled,  “Our Father who art in heaven…” which elicited some really emotional responses from readers.  Maybe the questions that were cited were too strong for some to bear, in any event it seems Manfred’s essay touched a nerve regarding the doubts that many may be unconsciously repressing, for whatever reasons.

Some interpreted the essay as blasphemous, especially concerning the phrasing of the title and similar wording in the body of the essay, which reflected an overture to a Catholic prayer as fodder for an editorial on the perceived shortcomings of God. 

Overall, there were two main lines of thought, which encompassed the feedback pointedly rebutting the article;  

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Updated  October 31, 2005

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