I have a meme for people to consider.
Over the past few days there has been a raging debate between those who see the beheading of Nick Berg as symptomatic of the evil of Al Qaeda, and those who see it as symptomatic of the evil of George Bush.
This is in fact very easy to reconcile.
The beheading is symptomatic of both.
And as the detail emerges that:
- Michael, Nick's father was a peacenik;
- That Nick himself was a lone adventurer who was possibly really in Iraq to help Iraq for his own sake (as distinct from Halliburton and Bechtel);
- and who was himself held in US Military Custody during his time there (and who missed his plane because of this
... the picture we see is becoming clearer.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=1577936&mesg_id=1577936Nick Berg was a truly innocent victim. And his death is truly an appalling moral indictment on us all and our world.
Spritually this makes sense. Evil begets evil. Pain begets pain. Horror begets horror.
The fact that as the detail emerges in this case it is full of poetic clarity is in my view indicative of its value as an object lesson. Especially in terms of attempting to understand it spiritually as well as rationally.
Meanwhile, and I admit to being partial to this theory myself, many also ponder how often Al Qaeda seems to step in at the right time to lift heat off the Bush Administration. In some cases - like the Michael Jackson case - the means by which this could be orchestrated is present (Asscroft and the DoJ).
In others like this beheading it isn't. That is unless the black ops boys dressed up in suits and chopped Nick's head off themselves. And in so many ways this is altogether too diabolical to consider possible.
Again the way to reconcile the fact that Al Qaeda's evil appears to routinely help George Bush's evil is simple.
Evil also helps evil. That is what it does.
It makes perfect sense that evil actions by Al Qaeda should be at times convenient for an evil White House. They are on the same side in the spirtual war against peace.
And there is no need for this to be organised by human hands even if at times it is.
Those without a faith background may call this coincidence, but for many people with a belief in God (including millions of Muslims) there is no difficult in identifying the means of organisation, Satan.
Alternatively if you find this hard to swallow, consider the reverse.
It makes no sense spiritually for evil actions by Al Qaeda (such as the beheading of Nick Berg) to help the peace lobby, how can evil help good? (The mistaken belief that "the ends justify the means" is a prime source of human misery.)
So Berg's beheading helps the White House. Of course it does.
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anyways....
Food for thought.
Al
(I am editing this meme to make it clearer....if any quick observations are made they can be incorporated....)