A chara, – Recently I went to the 9/11 photo exhibition at Collins Barracks Dublin. The exhibition was part of the excellently-run Heritage Week. There was a good turnout. As I mused my way around the photographs I kept thinking about the people of the Arab world and the poor people in Afghanistan and Iraq.
While I have no sympathy for the people who committed these dastardly acts on that terrible September morning, I ask myself why is there no exhibition of the slaughter in the Middle East of the innocent and the terrible conditions of the displaced refugee camps in the aforementioned countries. Over the next few weeks we will have a plethora of articles written about 9/11. People will read and shake their heads; but will they ask why did this happen and what can be done to stop it happening again? For 10 years the West has waged a “war on terror”. War is not the answer.
I live with hope. – Yours, etc,