Loss, War, and the Brutal Desecration of the Enemy- The Peace Blog

"Yet each person who has lost a loved one knows secretly, deeply, that no war, no act of revenge, no daisy cutters dropped on someone else's loved ones or someone else's children will blunt the edges of their pain or bring their loved ones back.

War cannot avenge those that have died. War is only a brutal desecration of their memory. To fuel yet another war, this time against Iraq, by cynically manipulating people's grief by packaging it for TV specials sponsored by selling detergent and running shoes CHEAPEN and DEVALUE grief, to drain it of meaning. What we are seeing now is a vulgar display of the business of grief...the pillaging of even the most private human feelings for political purpose.

It is a terrible, violent thing for a state to do to its people."
-Arundhati Roy