tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171663.post7189866732656039202..comments2023-09-07T02:32:16.470-07:00Comments on R/A - The Radical Agenda: Medicine & Terror - Two ApproachesJackAzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14067050980827976301noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171663.post-55163128188410110982007-03-10T17:19:00.000-07:002007-03-10T17:19:00.000-07:00Jack, I think I understand what you are saying, an...Jack, I think I understand what you are saying, and agree with a lot of it. However, I think that while our country has become hospitable to "infection" by terrorists, I don't think that it is because of our eradication tactics. I think that it is because of the very freedoms that those same terrorists would seek to destroy. We have freedom of religion, therefore it is possible for Islamic fundamentalists bent on world subjugation to come over here and open their mosques; something we would never be allowed to do as Christians in, say, Iran. That freedom is being taken advantage of. Some would say abused. I am not saying "close down the mosques". I am saying there doesn't appear to be any sort of good answer to getting rid of the whacko faction of Islam. <BR/><BR/>Like our bodies, and medicine, sometimes you have to choose between the lesser of evils. When I was a child, I had a severe thyroid condition which left me, well, obese. After getting on thyroid medication (which I took until adolescence), I slimmed WAY down, and eventually my thyroid started working. Years later, my mom found out that medication can lead to osteoporosis. So I may wind up with that because of the meds, but if I hadn't had them, I would have suffered a myriad of health problems due to weight. OK, OK, perhaps there is a natural way to treat an underactive thyroid. I honestly don't know. Let us consider my daughter. Megan started having seizures nearly a year ago. We tried various natural ways to control them because I really didn't want to put her on the heavy-duty drugs that anti-convulsants are made of. Nothing we tried completely eliminated them, although several things helped a bit. We finally caved, and she is now on Trileptal, and she hasn't had a seizure in nearly a month. We may find out in 10 years this medication can lead to some other condition, but we are praying that won't happen. If it does, I can only hope Megan will understand that we were trying to avoid brain damage from repeated seizures. <BR/><BR/>Brain damage or....? I'm taking a deep breath and going with the unknown. <BR/><BR/>Erosion of our freedoms or death by dirty bomb? I pray neither. <BR/><BR/>Peace, <BR/><BR/>KathyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com