on 4/14/06 1:42 PM, pmmcooke at pmmcooke@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > With the building of the wall around Israel has come the > deterence of many more would-be human bombs. (Maybe. Maybe not.) Isn't it a *good* > thing to keep Israeli children and babies from being maimed or > killed by bombs loaded with schrapnel? (Apparently not in Avis's > world, it isn't.) Keeping children and babies from being maimed and killed, in Iraq, Palestine and Iran, is just as important. When it comes to international affairs, Good Fences don't usually make Good Neighbors. The Northern Irish seem to be getting it at last. But maybe I'm being multicultural. I certainly don't belong to any exceptionalist group. I'm for empathy. See Karen Armstrong. Avis New Pacifica Working Group http://www.egroups.com/group/NewPacifica 'Save Our Stations!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NewPacifica/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: NewPacifica-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/