Please help me think this through...

[Douglas D. Germann, Sr.]

To my good friends--

Would you be so kind as to help me think this through?

The last few days watching the news the phrase "truth and reconciliation"
keep coming to me. Now I do not know much about the phrase, but I associate
it with a formal process that was undertaken a few years ago (maybe it is
still ongoing?) in South Africa to help heal the wounds of Apartheid.

What would happen if the USA would apologize to the people of Iraq for the
invasion and the atrocities done by us or under our watch? What is the
likely result if we would make sincere efforts to make amends? Even to dare
to vulnerably make amends?

Some would surely say it will be viewed as weakness, as an admission of
defeat. But it takes a strong people to make an apology, yes?

Is this not a form of griefwork?

What do the learnings of open space do to help us think this through? What
would warriors for peace do?

                              :-Doug. Germann
                              Seeking people making change.

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