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<DIV><EM><FONT face=Garamond color=#800080 size=4>Only if enough of us have the
courage to keep in open in the face of anything and
everything.</FONT></EM></DIV>
<DIV><EM><FONT face=Garamond color=#800080 size=4></FONT></EM> </DIV>
<DIV><EM><FONT face=Garamond color=#800080 size=4>Toni</FONT></EM></DIV>
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<A title=artsilva@mail.eunet.pt href="mailto:artsilva@mail.eunet.pt">Artur F.
Silva</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, September 23, 2001 5:29
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Fw: 11 September 2001 -
International Day of Peace</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>At 22:21 23-09-2001, Agneta Setterwall wrote:<BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite type="cite"><FONT face=arial size=2>I was shocked when I
found this deep down in my maillist. All that happened made me totally
forget about this. I wonder if the day was chosen, or if it is a
coincidence.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite type="cite">This is the first year in the Decade for a
Culture of Peace and <BR>Non-violence for the Children of the World,
2001-2010. Culture of <BR>Peace Week, September 11-18, 2001 is designed to
highlight the <BR>Decade, promote the International Day of Peace and support
the <BR>Special Session on Children. Support Culture of Peace Week by
<BR>beginning the festivities with the Minute of Silence on September
<BR>11.</BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>I have also noticed the coincidence immediately on
the September 11th - in <BR>the morning (in Europe) I red many articles on the
newspapers about the<BR>UN decade for "a culture of peace". In the afternoon
(Europe) all that <BR>purpose was lost.<BR><BR>I first though it was a
coincidence. Then I realized that probably it <BR>wasn't so. The attacks could
have as one of its major objectives to stop <BR>the decade on peace and force
occident to begin a REAL GREAT WAR. <BR>I began to reflect: and if this is
really an objective of the terrorists?<BR><BR>And if they have used the
attacks to "invite" the USA (and it would be <BR>similar if it was Bush, Gore
or Clinton) and its colonies (including the one <BR>that, in what concerns
war, is always "more American than the Americans" - <BR>now ruled by Mr.
Blair) and other partners in Europe to enter war. If the <BR>terrorists'
objective is that this war will allow many people from ISLAM to <BR>finally
decide for one side - including eventually creating a(nother) revolution
<BR>in Pakistan (a country close to have nuclear weapons) by pro-taliban
<BR>forces...<BR><BR>And even putting people in the USA and Europe, that one
would expect to <BR>be wiser, and fully grasp the paradigm shift needed to try
to understand<BR>the situation and act upon it, to speak about the "possible
convenience"<BR>of war.<BR><BR>Will UN ever adopt again a decade of peace in
this century? And will human<BR>life as we understand it still exist in the
next one? Will any space still be <BR>open in a near future? I don't know. Do
you?<BR><BR>Regards<BR><BR>Artur<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>