[Peace-discuss] facilitators beware

[C. G. Estabrook]

No wonder we have trouble getting facilitators for AWARE meetings...

Ricky Baldwin wrote:
>>From below: "Eight civilians, including a child, were
> killed in an operation by American forces in eastern
> Afghanistan on Thursday, an Afghan police official
> said. US forces acknowledged killing a child and
> injuring a woman but said the seven men also killed
> were "Qaeda facilitators" who had opened fire on them
> as they approached a compound."
> 
> Remember that "qaeda" means "group".  
> 
> But seriously just what does this accusation mean? 
> "Facilitators"?  Someone who makes something easier? 
> Enablers?  What about us, do we qualify by some
> twisted logic?  
> 
> (I don't take the "opened fire" part seriously.  We've
> heard that too often before, with cops and soldiers,
> for whom assaulting one of their number can mean
> attacking them with a weapon or can mean attacking
> their fists with one's face, for example.)  
> 
> I suspect "facilitators" here means, roughly, "someone
> we wanted to kill."  Which means, yes, any of us could
> qualify in a pinch...
> 
> Ricky
> ...