An Ounce of Peace

Zan I am 10 years your senior and I know how you feel.  I feel like giving up on the human race almost every day.  I'm sure that what I post and the emails I write and the few phone calls I make all do very little to change opinions or make even a small dent in the complete mess that I see mankind making of this world. 

I grew up with the insanity of the nuclear threat lurking around and doing drills in school where we hid under our desks (as if that would protect us).  Then I though I saw a glimmer of sanity when the powers that be started talking about nuclear treaties and curtailing the arsenals and I, and probably most of the world, breathed a little easier and was lulled into a false sense of security.  Now it has all come home to roost and I see it happening again on a much larger scale and feel that I am one of the few that realize the actual threat.

Yes I too feel like folding my tent and giving up as well but then I think of the alternative and realize that, although I'm tilting at windmills and butting my head against a stone wall, to do nothing is even worse.  So, I keep shouting from the middle of a forest hoping that someone anyone will listen once in a while.

I hope you take a break from the madness and then reconsider because your comments are some of the most sane that I've read and I for one will miss them.

Zanubiyah,

The only useless voice, is the unused voice.
Thank you for sharing yours here.

Peace be with you and the world.

Good luck, Zanubiyah.

This too shall pass.

Peace!

Firstly AA wrote...

"I heard an ugly rumor that Syria has the internet though, so if you are indeed returning to your country of origin you have little excuse in failing to stay current and to bring yet another take on world politics to this site."

Yes AA Syria is a modern nation.  They have the Internet there.  Unfortuantly, it is the US that has deicided that Syria is a "terrorist nation" and in it's infinate wisdom has cut this link between regular Syrian citizens and regular Americans.  You might find out there is more to the Syrian people than Israel, the bloviators of Fox News, the Neocons and other hatemongers want you to know.  Of course, this link may provide frindships and information that Syrians really are human, and we are not all terrorists.  We wouldn't want that now would we?

AA also you wrote this...

"Oh, I forgot, you lack certain freedoms in Syria don't you? If you do try to contact us from "over there" be sure to do it from a safe place. We wouldn't want to hear that you were hurt for talking to the infidels..."

AA...Syria is a secular governace, meaning they, within the law,  have the right to forbid religious practice.  Although it has eased up alot, when I was in school, I could not wear my headscarf on the school grounds.  In fact, it was against the law to wear it even on the bus, train, or any public transport.  Other places religious symbols were forbidden were public buildings, court houses, libraries, and any shop that posted it at it's entrance.  So much for the "infidel thing"

AA...it is one thing to never have had freedoms and want them, and another to have them and give them away.  It is different when you fear the government because you fight for rights and privacies you never had than it is to fear others so much that you hand over your rights and privacies to a small group of men willingly and purposefully.  Somehow you ave reasoned that your best interests will be served by supporting, in the name of fighting terrorists, the trading of liberty for safety.  Whenever you hand over your rights to another, you are only secure as those with whom you have intrusted with it want you to be.  I am afraid that the lesson I understand already is coming fast and hard to your home.  You will find that the ultimate goal of those you believe support your beliefs is ultimate power, and they will have it, over and above Christianity and you. 

indie wrote this...

"Now, you write a final "goodbye."  Well,  hells-bells!  If you are returning to Syria (as you have intimated in past posts) then yeah, it is going to be futile to keep trying to change things in the USA." 
 

Yes, we are in the final stages of uprooting ourselves from the US and returning home.  Our home is the last thing we need to sell and it is now on the market.  We bought our home in the early 1980's and there are no lien holders.  It has much more market value, even in a failing housing market than we have invested, and should be an easy sell.  After this, we (I and my husband) will return to our homeland.  However, my children will stay here, as they really have no ties to Syria.  They are truely American and will raise their children as Americans.  Hopefully, they can enjoy the freedoms and dignities that were extended to us when we first came here to this great nation.  I pray this for then, and all Americans.

I might still comment on some articles here until I am gone.  However, as far as my voice being effective, I think that my sight is on going home.