Stars on Fire

9:00 am
Sunday, 01.20.08
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/19/bhutto.arrest.ap/index.html?iref=topnews

A 15 year old Pakistani boy has admitted to being a part of the group that assassinated Benazir Bhutto in December of 2007. His arrest is apart of the first batch of arrests made in the investigation of Bhutto's murder. With the arrests and investigation, police are saying that they have also "foiled new suicide attacks against the country's Shiite minority".

Musharraff is not Pakistan's only problem. Musharraff is not the world's only problem in Pakistan. In all of the Middle East, the people should not be the focus and we all shouldn't be so eager to fight.

When a political assassin is 15, the problem is bigger than people. There is an ideology at work, infecting the people. This viral ideology quickly infects each cell and convinces the cell to use its own mechanisms to replicate it and make all their ideologies and beliefs about life align with it. And then a fully infected and transformed cell touches the hand, speaks to the mind, and lights ablaze another spirit of another cell, infecting him or her, and begins the same internal process.

War is not a cure. You may kill some infected cells but there will be survivors, resistant to war.

Show the people you understand. Show the people what they fight for matters such that they need not fight anymore. Show the people there are alternatives in life. Show the people you see how they suffer. Engage the people.

People around the world are not fundamentally different. They want someone or Something to see their struggle, help them struggle to improve so as not to struggle anymore. Poverty, incessant war, desperation, ignorance, disease.... Struggle no more.