Where Again

am I going today? It's the dawn of a new day and in an optimist's world (I am not one of those) perhaps the dawn of a new brighter era. Do I dare hope that sometime soon people in the middle east will stop getting blown to smithereens? If ever there were something I have been praying for it is that. Can someone tell me who exactly we are fighting over there in Iraq? Is it Ben Ladin? Is he under a rock in Bagdad? What do you think? Just imagining all the little kids who have been blown up and/or maimed for life. It pains me. Does somebody up there hear me? The dead mothers, fathers, the sisters and brothers, the clerics, the grandparents who once had the right to live are forever gone. Tens of thousands snuffed out. It is a tragedy which I am in pain over. Is this the price for oil, for Israel, or so that we can have the freedom to buy five dollar a gallon gas and burn it in the drive through at a fast food burger place to buy a three dollar meal? Something is wrong!
Truly it is our duty to pursue happiness whatever that is to us. We cannot run around fretting and frowning all of the time. But in those quiet moments it will hit us. That monster known as denial is pervasive. Let's watch Brady Bunch reruns instead of thinking and remembering the four thousand plus dead mostly young American military lives gone like a puff of smoke. Their loss has created a chain reaction of sorrow and shame. It ripples through the national psyche like a dark secret that will forever haunt this country of global promise. We have lost our way. We have lost our light. We are tainted by power and arrogance.
I believe if anyone can change it is we the people. We are always trying to broker peace in the middle east (or are we?). Maybe we need a mediator, a third party therapy to see clearly.
Thank you for indulging me here and I would love to hear your thoughts on this.
your own, rickyrixster