Matthew 16: 24 Then Jesus told his disciples, ‘If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 25For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it. 26For what will it profit [...]
Archive for April, 2009
A Deal with the Devil
Posted: April 28, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Domination System, Iraq, nonviolence, Tom Engelhardt, Walter Wink
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“We are about to find out.”
Posted: April 25, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Iraq, JFK, Obama, Pakistan
James Blight has a fantastic article up at The Chronicle of Higher Education. An excerpt: But proclivities and stated objectives aside, does Barack Obama have the right stuff necessary to avoid disastrous wars like those in Vietnam under LBJ and in Iraq under George W. Bush? While voters going to the polls on November 4 [...]
Korb is Wrong on Afghanistan
Posted: April 23, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, counterinsurgency, Katrina vanden Heuval, Lawrence Korb, war on terror
Lawrence Korb recently debated Katrina vanden Heuval in the second of three films for RethinkAfghanistan.com, a project of BraveNewFilms. Korb works at the Center for American Progress and is one of the driving intellectual forces behind the liberal embrace of the Afghan war under the Obama administration. He posted an addendum to his remarks, which [...]
Jesus the Collateral Damage, Jesus the Insurgent
Posted: April 15, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Christ, Christianity, counterinsurgency, Jesus, nonviolence, Rome
More civilians died in Afghanistan from U.S. bombs while we ate ham and deviled eggs. I did not post often during Holy Week because I wanted to not make every part of my faith about my opposition to war. So I took a week off. But as hard as I try to keep it out, [...]
Time to Break the Silence on Afghanistan Escalation
Posted: April 6, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Break the Silence, Get Afghanistan Right, Martin Luther King, Obama, Pakistan, Predator, Reaper
Forty-two years ago last Saturday, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stood in the pulpit of Riverside Church in New York City to indict his country’s war policies in Vietnam. Entitled “Beyond Vietnam—A Time to Break the Silence,” this seminal speech attacked the paralyzed apathy stifling his nation’s ability to yield to the clear moral imperative [...]
Dr. King, Drones and Widening War
Posted: April 5, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, counterinsurgency, Martin Luther King, nonviolence, P.W. Singer, Pakistan, Predator, Reaper, Wired for War
Message creep tracks mission creep. “The real problem is Pakistan!” Mechanized hunter-killer falcons wander out of the Graveyard and hurl hellfire. Afghanistan becomes “AfPak.” The strike areas grow. A widening gyre whose center cannot hold. April 4, 1967: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gives one of the most important and least remembered speeches of his [...]
