to be an evangelical Christian, is on a rant about Tom Tancredo (R-CO) and his hypothetical bombing of Mecca IF Islamic Jihadist's nuke an American city. His two favorite questions are: 1) "What about our allies that are Muslim nations?" and 2) "What about the 5 to 10 thousand US soldiers who are Muslim?" It's questions like these that make me hate hypotheticals; but the reality is we must deal with them like so many other distasteful things these days.
Hewitt's reasoning "sounds" good, but it also sounds like "pie-in-the-sky" bureaucratic reasoning! I've often thought his time inside the Beltway flavored his critical thinking skills! So what about the military personnel? Are we going to do a demographic survey every time we make a policy decision that might involve military action?
Lincoln had Southerners under his command who had relatives in Richmond and Gettysburg; and whose home churches were there as well. I hope it was never a consideration in the decision to invade ... McClelland's maybe.
Hewitt's reasoning "sounds" good, but it also sounds like "pie-in-the-sky" bureaucratic reasoning! I've often thought his time inside the Beltway flavored his critical thinking skills! So what about the military personnel? Are we going to do a demographic survey every time we make a policy decision that might involve military action?
Lincoln had Southerners under his command who had relatives in Richmond and Gettysburg; and whose home churches were there as well. I hope it was never a consideration in the decision to invade ... McClelland's maybe.
It was the decisions of hardened military men like Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan who brought the god-awful Civil War to a close. And did Truman and the Joint-Chiefs survey Japanese-American soldiers about Buddhist temples and shrines in Hiroshima and Nagasaki? I don't think so. War is war, not politics, Hugh!
With regard to the ally conundrum; consider this Compass Direct report ...
With regard to the ally conundrum; consider this Compass Direct report ...
A Muslim council has accused three Christian women of attempting to convert Islamic children under the guise of a Christian education program. Rebekka Zakaria, Eti Pangesti and Ratna Bangun were arrested on May 13 and eventually taken to the Indramayu State Prison in West Java, where they await trial.
I'm not alone in my questioning of the wisdom of having allies such as Indonesia and Saudi Arabia. And Hugh, let me remind you, as Christians Paul's warning about the company we keep applies to nations as well as to individuals. As difficult as it may be, Christians are required to think as Christians first and as Americans second.
For those of you who would suspect I support the bombing of Mecca, I don't! However, IF these lunatics nuke an American city, this may spiral out of control; IF (hypothetically) it does, THEN conventional wisdom is out the window with regard to this enemy's insanity ... especially an enemy who has no Richmond or Vicksburg.
As I've said before, this is really a Muslim family problem; in the same way a wayward child is a family problem. It only beomes a community problem when the family fails to deal with the child and the health and welfare of innocent people is threatened.
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