Fr. Seán ÓLaoire

So I think Zoroastrianism and Persia modeled that for us, you know, 2,500 years ago.

Now I think it's, for me, this is a typical situation in where, you know, it is not only permissible, but it is advisable to resist evil.

And obviously this is an evil situation where people are being mowed down

that an extraordinarily developed culture has been suppressed.

Women have been totally suppressed within the system.

Justice has been suppressed.

And if the only way you can deal with that is some form of physical resistance, then physical resistance is not only acceptable, it may be mandated.

And for me, you know, I'm, I'm really happy to see some kind of an intervention from the outside, you know, whether it's puts on the ground, I wouldn't, maybe not that, but some way that you have to take that kind of leadership out of, out of, out of positions of power to allow the people to kind of articulate their own wisdom and their own spirituality.

And so just to watch them being more donors sit on our hands, that for me, that's not compassion.

So I have no idea what the plan is or,

Obviously, it's very, very complicated because there's a history there.

There are other regions and other countries in the region to be considered.

But for me, I think that the ultimate question is, what is the loving thing to do with this situation?

What is the form of compassion that needs to be activated?

And it is not, attaboy, you're doing a great job, you're not suppressing people and killing 2,300.

It is not, you know, kind of cooperating with the regime.

It's not trying to compensate for their mistakes.

At this stage, it's really confronting it.

And it seems that these regimes, very often, the only thing they experience is some form of physical intervention.

So, I don't know what that's going to look like.