Soul Poison
Building Peace Is Building the Future…
by Robert C. Koehler
We’ve lost a war without being able to surrender — and thus divest ourselves of the consciousness that got us into it. We are unable to look honestly at what we did and why, and determine not to do it again.
My friend Catherine Menninger sent me a note the other day that began: “The days are long past when the poison of DU (depleted uranium) was our shared preoccupation. Now an even deeper poison, a soul poison, is seeping into the body politic and beyond. It is touching us all.â€
Ten years later, an enormous question looms: How do we get the poison out of our system? I think that’s what atonement means.
In a lengthy report on the Iraq war, David Swanson has placed it “among the world’s worst events,†a profoundly serious allegation that makes it far more than a “mistake.†(more…)