This should not surprise anyone: Pentagon leaders have recommended to President Bush that the United States make no further troop reductions in Iraq this year, administration officials said yesterday. The plan, delivered this week, calls for extending a pause in drawdowns until late January or early February — after the Bush administration has left office. [...]
Archive for September 5, 2008
Shocking! The Pentagon Wants to Keep All the Troops in Iraq
Posted: September 5, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, civilians, Iraq, Jesus, nonviolence, Parable of the Weeds, Pentagon
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Weaponized Xbox Controllers, The Myth of Redemptive Violence and the Militarization of Play
Posted: September 5, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: Army, Close Combat, Fleet Week, Lockheed Martin, Nintendo, Pentagon, Raytheon, video games, Wii, World of Warcraft, Xbox
One of the deepest challenges that comes with the Christian faith is the constant struggle to reject false dilemmas, the most pervasive of which is the false dilemma of “fight or flight.” We learn to see conflicts in terms of this false choice from an early age, and we learn that “fight” is the “honorable” [...]
