Where does Compassion end? Or does it?

This statue is found in the Epcot Center --called Spirit of Compassion.    We, as a nation and as a nation of individuals are dealing with it big-time this week while Congress debates it.   We are seeing videos showing children dying of gasses and comparing it with the thousands killed in "ordinary" ways and we are examining our role.  Where does our responsibility stop? "  Does it stop at our borders?

I have no answers to people who are tired of footing the bills for civil wars which will never be peacefully settled.  I read Nouwen and he tells a story of the response of Hubert Humphrey in the Senate.  'Senator Humphrey walked back to his desk, picked up a long pencil and said in his famous, high-pitched voice; "Gentlemen, look at this pencil.  Just as the eraser is just a very small part of this pencil and is used only when you make a mistake, so compassion is only called upon when things get out of hand.  The main part of life is competition; only the eraser is compassion.  It is sad to say, gentlemen, but in politics, compassion is just part of the competition."

Lord, show somebody who has some sense the way we should go!