Letter to the editor

Try turning on the news with the volume turned way down. See the talking heads ranting and raving, angry fists directed at one group or another and accusing each other of fostering war and horror upon the innocenrt, whose numbers are legendary and endless. With the volume turned down you can't always be sure who's doing what to who, but you have no doubts that it is always bad. One side rightly claims that it is acting in self defense and 'collateral damage' is inevitable. "Collateral Damage" means property damage. It also means children being wheeled off into ambulances, the lucky ones, that is and who can rightly say that they belong on anybody's enemy list. The non involved world cries for fairness and a quick solution to ending the violence, some would rather it not end too quickly. After all, there are issues to resolve before peace can prevail.

In the name of all that's sane and righteous, every single day that passes in bloody carnage and stays emersed in the murky soup of political juggling, is a day cloaked in shame. Shame on everybody. Those who kill, those who watch in silence and those who just don't care.

George Morin
Auburn, Ga.