[Buddha-l] Re: Greetings from Oviedo

[Joy Vriens]

Richard Hayes wrote:

> Look at the hideous monstrosity America has 
> become through its collective foolishness. I think the American empire 
> serves as evidence for my claim that folly is dangerous.

"Bush's remarks in the Rose Garden came a day after Iraqi and U.S. 
forces announced they had *killed* Abdullah Abu Azzam, the No. 2 
al-Qaeda leader in Iraq, during a weekend raid in Baghdad.
"This guy's a brutal killer," Bush said."

If one forgets a second about the battle of good against bad, 
freedom-lovers and freedom-haters, and the suffering it causes, it's 
quite a funny remark coming from someone for whom Jesus is the favorite 
political philosopher, one that is alleged to have said:

"Why do you notice the splinter in your brother's eye, but do not 
perceive the wooden beam in your own eye?
How can you say to your brother, 'Let me remove that splinter from your 
eye,' while the wooden beam is in your eye?
You hypocrite, remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then you will 
see clearly to remove the splinter from your brother's eye." (Matthew 7.3-5)

Joy