R.I.P. ALL victims of violence

I rarely laugh out loud when I read the Wall Street Journal, but what I found at the top of the "What's News" section was so preposterous, that I couldn't help it.

"Bush urged Virginia Tech survivors to 'overcome evil with good.'"

How about overcoming evil with policies that prohibit mentally instable people from getting two semi-automatic handguns? How about overcoming the evil of poverty and the AIDS pandemic with living up to a sliver of the foreign aid that our government has promised? How about overcoming the evil of war and occupation by being honest and admitting that Iraq was a disastrous mistake?

It's interesting that Bush paraphrases a biblical mandate related to loving one's enemies. The killer at Virginia Tech was living by the paradigm that Bush's foreign policy perpeturates; that is, that you should NOT love your enemies, that you should kill them. Bush resents the Lord's notion that you should turn the other cheek. In fact, Bush has shown us that you should slap someone that may, or may not, slap you. Bush doesn't make a statement when 171 people die in Baghdad (for example, today). It begs the question, "What does Bush care about?"I genuinely hope that his confused-religious rhetoric turns into a sincere love for God and other people. If so, he'll repent for the blood on his hands, and perhaps then, there will be space for new life to grow.

Read the article here.