Its a tricky thing. Victims need support. At this moment America is a victim and needs support. They need the support to heal. I willingly and freely give that support to those suffering in the USA and around the world because of the actions taken yesterday.

My kids fight and one of them gets hurt. I hug them and tend to hurt. I do NOT encourage the child to go out and kick the other one as payback and I do not stand by and let that happen. I will not support efforts on the part of the USA to use their newly acquired victim status to create more victims. Justice and healing I will work for but not revenge dressed up to mimic it. Any show piece retaliation would be as bad as yesterday's atrocity.

Yes America has blood on its hands from many places, they are not alone in this. It only needs to be pointed out again because of efforts by some to paint Americans as entirely peace loving and lily white. They aren't. The USA is very powerful country and it didn't get that way by accident or act of God. It got that way because people killed, injured and attacked many others that they saw as interfering with the interests of American power. American Power, not the freedom of normal Americans trying to live their lives out ina comfortable fashion. People trying to live their lives out in comfortable situations have had them cave in because of actions of the American Govt and some of its citizens to deprive their governments of power.

Yesterday's action was an attack on that power. It also killed thousands of innocent people. It has been universally condemned as a horrific action. I agree. I do not want to see another horrific act that kills innocent people. So I speak out against the white-washing of the American people that could lead to another atrocity while simultaneously offering support for their efforts to heal.

Peace

Sophocleese