If, instead, we say "Do not hate your enemies" then we are, perhaps, talking more plainly; we are saying "keep your emnity within limits, do not forget that your enemy is human too and that human dignity is more important than human division, more important than 'winning'."

One wonders if President Bush consulted Dr Graham about the organised slaughter of Iraqi troops fleeing in convoy northwards from Kuwait City. Perhaps they really were the enemy in retreat, preparing to fight again. Perhaps they were effectively refugees in uniform. Dr Graham is coming to Scotland soon; we could ask him.

Considering the horror we experienced when the Germans machine gunned refugee-packed roads in France in 1940, some questions might well be asked. Perhaps the UN military purpose could have been served merely by bombing the road in the path of the defeated Iraqis and giving them a better chance to surreneder.

It is to be hoped that the spiritual arm (Dr Graham) and the secular arm (President Bush) might care to consider this massacre of the forces of evil by the forces of good. They might even concede that good and evil are not as simple as they are sometimes cracked up to be .