Fr. Seán ÓLaoire

I think there are, hopefully, that the other Arab nations in the region would cooperate with the United States and with Israel to kind of replace this regime.

I'm not in favor of moving in like we did in Afghanistan and creating chaos in our wake, but somehow that the leadership needs to be taken out of their position right now, whatever that looks like.

When I look at, for instance, the snatching of Maduro, for me that was an extraordinary, that you could go in with such precision and in a two and a half hour period of time, snatch somebody who is that well-shielded and take them out of action, and the cheering that goes on as a result in Venezuela.

I think there's something comparable that's being called for in this situation.

I don't know what it's going to look like.

And it may be much more complicated because they may be much more prepared at this stage to defend their leaders, the Ayatollah or whatever, than Maduro's quite was.

But they need to be taken out of the equation because there's not going to be peace there.

And for me, it's a sin to see an extraordinary culture being suppressed.

I mean, now with thousands of martyrs, that their blood is not being kind of a cry for justice to the rest of the world.

I completely agree with you.

So, I mean, this is for me now is where the kind of the five aspects of compassion I spoke about to the neurological, watching what's happening.

Literally, I suspect that the mirror neurons in compassionate people are being activated by what's happening in your own right now.

So neurologically, we're being affected by it.

Definitely, psychologically, you're affected by it.

You see people being, you know, human ice being destroyed, people being mowed down in the streets.

So emotionally, you're affected by it.

Thirdly, sociologically, that's the one that we're not getting right now, it seems to me.

Obviously, the fourth level, the spiritual and praying and kind of radiating that area of the world with love and peaceful thoughts, and then finally realizing that, in some senses, it's God's gig as well, so it'll work out in some way.

But the missing piece is the sociological factor.

What does the sociological dimension of this situation call for at this stage?