The
Pope Can Stop the War
The Pope should go to
He should invite the
religious and peace leaders of the world to visit him there and find ways that
mankind can solve their "issues" in peace.
He should announce to
the Islamic world that the Catholic Church is sorry for any role it played in
the past with the Crusades, and that they are now
ready to create a "world crusade for peace" starting right there in
The Pope is the ONLY
person who has the stature to stop the tanks and the bombs absolutely and begin
this dialogue. He is always interested in creating saints--he can create
one!!! He has already said this is an immoral war, as have most other
major religious leaders. He can prevent it. He can re-set the world
dialogue on how to solve issues and can invite people to truly make war the
last resort, implement the teachings of Jesus in a very real and powerful way,
and make a statement that brings all of humanity into focus on the idea that we
need to find other ways to solve our disputes than simply hurting each other.
he would go down in
history as one of a small handful of great saints and leaders who changed the
course of history, along side Jesus, Gandhi, etc.
The world peace
movement would be energized. The governments of the world would have a
new calculus to reflect on. And even the strongest "war hawks"
in the world could not start bombing
Of course, inspections
could continue, and a dialogue with Saddam could begin so that he realizes that
he has no future in the "war" business either, but he can be
"ground zero" for providing political leadership for peace.
The bottom line of
course is, if the West cannot provoke a war, if Saddam is occupied having to
deal with all the peace leaders, and if the inspectors are keeping his weapons
systems under control, the world achieves stability, we reduce the tensions
between Christianity and Islam which fuel much of the world's current tensions,
we start a dialogue to bring about a higher level of action that puts warfare
basically "off the table" unless as a pure, defensive, absolute last
resort, for resolving mankind's problems.
Santosh Krinsky