Mary’s great hatchet job
The killing of innocent people is wrong. This basic principle can help us to think more clearly about our part in the planned invasion, and the ongoing bombardment and sanctions against Iraq.
Virginia Woolf says in a booklet I found on Greenham Common: "We can best help you prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods."
The calls to active non-violence and disarmament 'love your enemy' and 'beat swords into ploughshares' aren't new by any means. But in a time when the war drums from Washington and London are almost deafening, perhaps it takes the clanging sound of a mother's hatchet against a warplane at Shannon airport to remind us who we are and what we stand for.
Eoin Dubsky,
Whitewalls,
Ballymoney,
Gorey,
Co Wexford.
