This is an opportunity to register more clearly the scale of the ongoing disaster.
Rowan Williams in The Independent 25 March 2014
Dr Rowan Williams: As the first Syrian refugees arrive in the UK, we must now promise our support for more humanitarian action
Sometimes , just sometimes I think that we are being asked to help the victims of regimes that we as a country and as individuals had a part in creating. Hurt people hurt other people, people left to their own devices for too long often make the wrong decisions. Assad just like Osama Bin Laden Gaddaffii and Sadam Hussain were all men who at some point stepped over the line where they could be reached or reasoned with. Talking goes on for too long . Like many who read this I know people who are victims or descendants of victims .The type of torture and cruelty inflicted upon people is beyond the imagination of loving caring people and even when they hear or see they still do not seem to understand that they miss all the warning signs from people who become disillusioned dictators. I am often laughed at for over simplifying things, but actually it is that simple. Nothing is ever achieved through fear and rejection, nothing good is achieved with the kind of dishonesty that aids and abets violence. We have governents and churches that turn their back on the hurting.The Church is as responsible for confusion as those who hear and misapply it. Our only answer seems to be going it alone, in such circumstances resolution will always be hard to achieve. Rowan is right and also often ridiculed he is often misquoted and misrepresented, but he is also greatly respected for the aspects of Spirituality he brings to leadership, I wonder if we can stop this ball rolling I thought that was what the G8 and G20 summits and all the other international bodies were there for . It just always seems to me that a lot of atrocities happen because the perpetrator is either grieving in the first instance or that they are affected by substances or that someone has got into their heads and they become confused and therefore attack because they feel threatened. We say we never want to see a third world war well to achieve that communication has to be improved and fear irradicated and people need to be allowed to express openly their feelings without alarm or judgement being part of the equation so that the right help is attainable and acceptable.For all our psychologist and forensic knowledge we still do not seem to enable people to deal with the pressure of leading.