Editor's Note: Here is a timely local blog as things heat up in Libya.
Every day now we awake to new more dire predictions of a massive nuclear meltdown in Japan in as many as four reactors, yet another revolution in the Middle East with a sadistic insane leader ordering his troops to shoot his own people, an unbelievable rising death toll in Japan from the earthquake and tsunami, and now a U. N. Security Council resolution that institutes a no fly zone over Libya.
That resolution also authorizes “all necessary means” to enforce that resolution. What does that mean? Will our troops now be sent to Libya with other country’s forces to oust Kadhfi? Can we handle another war front at this time? I don’t know about you but I feel overloaded. I wonder how much this world can take.
There seems to be something awful happening almost everywhere and I can’t watch it anymore. But I also am compelled to watch so I am informed if a cloud of radiation is going to fall on me or my friends and family’s young men will now go onto a new battlefield.
Although I am not ever pro-war, I do believe the citizens of Libya who got up the gumption at the peril to their lives to start the revolution toward freedom need to be supported by other countries. I am not against the U.S. being part of coming to their aid and hopefully avoiding more Libyan deaths and the ouster of an obviously insane leader.
There seems not to be enough money or supplies to cope with all the suffering worldwide. That doesn’t even include the many unemployed who are homeless and/or starving in our own country.
We are being asked to open our pocketbooks for so many things but there is no way the vast majority of us can possibly cover all the bases. The world is becoming a sieve, leaking money in so many places it appears there is no way to plug all the holes.
My heart hurts for everyone suffering and often I feel guilty that I have a roof over my head, food to eat and am not in a devastated or warring country. I feel awful that my disability income will not allow me to donate to help all these suffering people.
The song “We are the world” has been in my mind a lot the past couple of weeks. The world seems to be pushing toward many free allied countries and that sounds like a good thing to me.
In the end "we are the world" and should be responsible to help each other especially in disasters, manmade and natural. I just pray there is a positive end in sight for all the peoples of the world.