[Peace] Overcoming Terrorism, by Michael Ortiz Hill

[Jay Mittenthal]

>>>===== Original Message From "Deena Metzger"
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>><deenametzger at earthlink.net> =====
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>>Dear Friends and Colleagues:
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>>Our lives are lived in overlapping communities and so this note is
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>>addressed to a loose and largely invisible confederation of communities,
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>>a culture within a culture.  Given the extreme gravity of the world
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>>situation, we call on you to distribute Overcoming Terrorism, by Michael
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>>Ortiz Hill, to the widest possible audience.  Framed on Eisenhower's
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>>Farewell Address and the 12 Step approach to addiction, Overcoming .
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>>was written to people of whatever political persuasion about how we carry
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>>matters of war and peace in our every day lives and how we might alter
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>>the trajectory we are on.  Please pass it on.
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>>This Invitation will link to the piece itself if you click below.
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>>Peace and Blessings,
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>>Michael Ortiz Hill
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>>Deena Metzger
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>>AN INVITATION
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>>Overcoming Terrorism: A Twelve Step Approach relies on the addiction
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>>model, an altogether contemporary way of wisdom, to strategically
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>>address compassionate action in a violent time. September 11th was a
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>>pivotal moment in the spiritual life of a nation and indeed the world.
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>>Overcoming Terrorism is a letter to people of goodwill, whatever their
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>>political persuasion, who are compelled to make their lives count as the
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>>world divides against itself.
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>>Dark clouds are gathering. We must act now on behalf of America and the
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>>world. The U.S. is posed to invade Iraq this fall and the Pentagon
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>>estimates "acceptable" American casualties at twenty to thirty thousand
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>>dead, roughly half the number of our losses in Vietnam. Your brother or
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>>son. Your cousin. Need we wait for the body bags to pile up?
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>>No estimates placed on "acceptable" Iraqi casualties. The Mideast is
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>>rightly concerned about regional war. America is virtually isolated
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>>among its European and Arab allies in its urgency to invade Iraq, which
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>>is to say that the Pentagon estimate may be conservative. King Abdullah
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>>of Jordan said simply we would be inviting "Armageddon." What is quite
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>>predictable is that this will yield harvest after harvest of terrorists
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>>and will increase the isolation of America among the community of
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>>nations.
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>>The twelve steps offers a way to understand our current situation and a
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>>way through to a more benevolent world. Read Overcoming Terrorism.
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>>Email
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>>this invitation, the essay itself or portions thereof to everyone and
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>>request everyone to do likewise. The world itself may be at stake. It is
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>>ours to reinvent the possibility of peace.
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>>Michael Ortiz Hill
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>>Deena Metzger
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