Let me begin with Hillary Rodham Clinton.
She wrote in her book: “… She told me about a woman who had been arrested for disturbing the peace by preaching the gospel on the streets of Bentonville…When I learned that she was from California, I persuaded the judge to buy her a bus ticket home instead of ordering her to be committed to the state hospital, and I convinced her that California needed her more than Arkansas.”
Without this intervention, the poor preacher from California should have been sent to a state mental hospital.
There are three levels of humanity in this context. At the lowest level, complete negligence or violence on a person concerned. At the second level, sending to a jail or a mental hospital a person concerned. At the third level, try to grasp a hidden massage or a hidden will of the God who sent a person concerned. But at the second-and-a-half level, a person concerned might be bought a bus ticket home.
In religious interpretation of Mrs. Clinton’s turbulent period, the God overlooking every event around her must take this episode into His account when He decided how her soul should be preserved.
I remember when Gorge W. Bush and Al Gore were debating, in the fall of 2000, in front of TV cameras and also being surrounded by some ordinary but chosen citizens. Mr. Gore was very harsh to Mr. Bush. Mr. Bush showed an apprehensive look.
On that moment, Mrs. Bush looked not only attentive but also alerted sharply. Anyway, after a long campaign, Mr. Bush was elected president.
Now, it might feel stupid and may be considered to be a negligible number of casualties if Japan protested to terrorists, pointing out that more than twenty Japanese were killed by their attacks on September 11, 2001, in or around the World Trade Center or on the crash of a hijacked plane near Pittsburgh.
If more than twenty nationals of a nation were killed on a single day by a group or an organization with a specific ideology or policy, its government should take a decisive measure to engage with them so as to avoid further casualties, even if it is to be done without military forces.
The best defense of any nation is to have the best ally. So, it is important to see who its best ally’s ally is and, if it is the first lady, what person she is. She might be a person who can somehow save herself or her husband. But there are well-known tragic cases.
The U.S. and China has one thing common, among many, especially I mind. That is a big honorary portrait of the winner of its Civil War: a big picture of Mao Tse-tung (or Mao Ze-dong) and a big sculpture of Abraham Lincoln in each capital.
However, their wives, each, are said to have very unhappy ending of their lives.
But, now I wonder if the heaven had issued an early warning to Japan prior to September 11, 2001, giving a chance to prevent the attacks and save many lives.
One thing I can remember is the movie “Pearl Harbor” released in the summer of 2001. It showed an excellent film-making technology. But, though it is just an entertainment movie and couldn’t be an authentic work to conduct verification of things in 1941, it is very unpleasant to see it, like other various Pearl Harbor movies. (It is even recently that Japanese scholars found that where Japanese ambassadors were before going to State Department for war declaration. They attended a funeral in a church.)
Another thing is the Ehime-Maru, a training fish boat owned by a Japanese fisheries high school, and a US submarine collision which occurred near Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in the spring of 2001. The accident killed nine Japanese crews including high-school students. United State Navy expressed an apology with sincerity.
We had seen them and been given reports on them in the spring and the summer of 2001. Probably we missed a sign. Or we might not practice humanity enough. Besides, the incumbent Prime Minister of Japan presiding since 2001 has no wife over a long period, which even Russian President got worried about.
“AS HE WISHES, HE GIVES A DIFFERENT GIFT TO EACH PERSON.”