How the hell of Japan will heal the world

Japan. I know you feel the same: lucky we are here, our lives not disrupted by yet another natural disaster, praying for those over there who are, wondering just what we can do to help, especially considering our good fortune to be spared such calamity (flood victims excepted).

Just when it seems that it could not be worse we hear about a possible nuclear meltdown. Maybe the heartfelt concern for them turns into a twinge of worry for ourselves. Some additional thoughts:

1) This natural calamity, like Haiti, Indonesia, New Orleans and many more, show yet again how much more destructive the hand of mother nature can be than that of humanity, at least as to land and property;

2) But unlike human conflict, natural disasters actually build bridges of cooperation, friendship and therefore longer term prospects for peace among nations;

3) Perhaps the most heartwarming, reassuring gesture is the headline I just saw on CNN, "China to send aid to Japan." No country suffered the horrors that China did from Japan during WWII. Chinese leadership still to the present day does not feel that Japan has apologized or made reparations. Many Chinese people do not have warm feelings towards Japan. Yet despite all this, the uniting bond of human compassion is overcoming the pain of an inhuman past; and -

4) So much for "Godless Communism". As JFK said, "-On earth God’s work must truly be our own." Of course, the Chinese weren’t following JFK, most never heard of him. But they were following the Golden Rule, first enunciated by their most celebrated figure, Confucius, around 500 BC;

5) The nations of the world are rushing to help. Hopefully this will be well coordinated. The US should move all resources away from destructive wars and to life saving missions wherever they are needed, starting with JAPAN;