thoughts for today

I saw the latest Time magazine. This image was not in it, and I think it should be.


Or maybe these:



I am getting tired of the media's focused rewrites of history, telling only their selected parts of the story.
Yes, the towers fell. Yes we have since traded some of our freedoms for perceived security. Yes, we have spent the last ten years waging wars in foreign lands.

If the media really wants to get my attention, let them start asking these and similar questions: Why did Al Qaeda think they needed to attack us? Why did these people think they could get away with it? What should we do to really prevent another thing like this happening?
Personally I think Ann Coulter had nearly the right idea back then: Kill the leaders and preach Christianity at the rest.
Christ says to turn the other cheek, yet God never said let your neighbor treat you like a doormat.

I thank god that I am not in a position to have to answer this for or to others, but I pray god give me grace sufficient to forgive what he requires me to forgive, and strength to administer a mercifully swift justice to any others that life requires me to give it to.