(Thank you, Huffington Post)
What does the military in Egypt think it is going to achieve by killing innocent people at a sit-in of Morsi supporters, including women and children—a 12-year-old boy was murdered along with hundreds of others.
What does killing ever achieve, especially when the army was supposed to be keeping the peace in Cairo by being the new, democratic leaders, not cold-blooded killers.
I was watching the news with mama on the internet and wondering just how anthros got to where they are today? The middle east upheaval was, it seems, only the beginning of more wars, more fighting over religious beliefs, more resistance to communal discussion for the good of all in so many other countries.
I was especially upset when I saw on the news that Doctors Without Borders was withdrawing from Somalia.
Doctors treat everyone, without regard to political beliefs or doctrines. When they are leaving anywhere, the world has certainly tipped in a wrong direction.
Just like when mama or papa asks me, “Loulou, did you knock that Kindle off the night table” or “Loulou, was it you who threw litter all over the bathroom”(I don’t do that anymore—I use the john), it feels that political upheavals are a lot like a kindergarten playground, if you ask me. One side says, “Well, YOU started it” and the other side says “No, YOU started it” and then they are at each other like…well…cats and dogs, and the fight begins and at the end there are dead bodies of innocent people everywhere and blood soaking into the cities’ gardens and streets and what were communal gathering places are destroyed and it starts all over again and never seems to end.
And our president feels the way I feel: “The United States strongly condemns the steps that have been taken by Egypt’s interim government and security forces,” Obama said. “We deplore violence against civilians.”
Imagine what that army would do to their own Egyptian kitties!
Animals, these people. But not an animal like ME.
(I’m so very sad for all of this, especially for a good friend who is in Cairo right now)
This must be such a worrying time for you. We hope that your Papa’s relatives can come home soon to safety.
We are horrified at the chemical weapons attacks that happened this last week. Our ape can’t get the images of those little ones struggling to live out of her head.
We have been distracting her from the horror by whapping moths (and lamps) to the floor. This seems to work.
Mama can’t stop thinking about man’s inhumanity to man, but inhumanity to tiny children—that is NOT permitted. Mama cried over those pictures and said, I’d like to see the whole lot of them (those who did it) wiped off the face of the earth, and she’s not violent but when it comes to kids, she even gives dirty looks to mean moms in supermarkets!
The trouble is Loulou, apes do not understand, as we cats do that killing is only justified if one is going to eat the little mouse or avian one has just caught. Apes are such wasteful creatures and seem to get into a frenzy of killing and forget the original reasons they got so cross about in the first place. Apes pride themselves on something they call “humanity” – in times of war and civil unrest this humanity thing seems like the first thing to be flushed down the pan.
We are very sad to see what is happening in Egypt.
Gerry & Mungo
Yes, an as I may have mentioned, Papa’s sort of son-in-law is there in the Italian embassy and we are all concerned for him, but I think he is coming home soon to take his kids on their time with him (he is separated from papa’s daughter), so we shall all breathe more easily…