tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post4557431823070350921..comments2024-03-07T14:43:21.888-08:00Comments on Whatever I want to write about: Where does the neighborhood end?Sriram Khéhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907731254833435446noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post-11646288310330903422016-10-28T08:16:41.583-07:002016-10-28T08:16:41.583-07:00My thoughts and your prayers won't make a damn...My thoughts and your prayers won't make a damn difference in Aleppo.<br /><br />Yes, stories like that doctor going on humanitarian missions, or MSF, or whoever, are phenomenal. But, going with the same medical theme, this is not even a band-aid on the problem. <br /><br />"Never again" has really become an empty slogan. All I know is that history won't be kind to us, when they review our inaction. The sin of omission here ... Sriram Khéhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06724218458246880137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post-35394377433994681252016-10-28T06:39:50.245-07:002016-10-28T06:39:50.245-07:00Anything on Syria leaves me numb. How can the worl...Anything on Syria leaves me numb. How can the world allow this to happen . How different are the ISIS, Basher al Assad and Putin different from Hitler ?? Yes, Anne, they are in our thoughts, but how ineffective it is in relation to the catastrophe leaves me despondent.<br /><br />I read this item in the New York Times a couple of months ago. If ever there are people worthy of veneration , they are people like him.<br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/opinion/sunday/why-i-go-to-aleppo.html?_r=0<br />Rameshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11782192840421019943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post-59666522690975605772016-10-27T21:50:16.106-07:002016-10-27T21:50:16.106-07:00I heard today that the school bombing might be pur...I heard today that the school bombing might be pursued as a war crime. Not that prosecution as such will stop anyone from repeating it in the future.<br /><br />Perhaps there are too many tragedies, too many pictures of tragedies - we become inured to it as we have to murder on the news or vulgarities spewed ad nauseum. I don't mean to imply these are of the same caliber but think there is a similarity to our desensitization to all.<br /><br />You may not stop your daily activities at a particular time, but you have that child and his family and all the victims of this senseless violence in your thoughts as you write this, just as those of us of faith pray for them. We do what we feel we can. Most of us lack the creativity or influence to do more than donate to the Red Cross or MSF and pray.Anne in Salemnoreply@blogger.com