As the world is considering how we should approach Iraq, what unique timing was your interview with Peter Ackerman as chair of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict in the February Journal [pp. 7-9]. Watching the third part of the BBC trilogy on the fall of Milosevic, I really appreciated for the first time the moral courage of the opposition, who finally put down their differences and worked for the common good.
Cooperation and individual courage, together with alert watchfulness and anticipation, enabled them to outwit the brutality and subtlety of the Serbian president and gradually undermine the authority of both the police and the military until they became virtually harmless. These upholders of the state had come to see for themselves the evil purpose of their dictator. That the arrest of Milosevic was almost without bloodshed was a miracle of teamwork, patience, and perseverance on the part of those supporting a democratic way. We can pray with conviction that "right is might" and that justice must be patterned on the divine.
Barnstaple, Devon
England
