As President Obama’s strategy review for Afghanistan commences, let’s hope he’s balancing the information coming to him from his happy-talking generals with some independent news reading of his own. While General David Petraeus serenades the major news media in the United States with the siren song of “progress,” security in Afghanistan is rapidly deteriorating, and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘peace’
Security in Afghanistan Crumbles as Counterinsurgency Fails
Posted: September 12, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: Afghan National Army, Afghanistan, Afghanistan war, anti-war, Army, Brave New Foundation, COIN, corruption, counterinsurgency, failure, Hamid Karzai, Kabul Bank, Kabulbank, military, Obama, Pashtuns, peace, Rethink Afghanistan, strategy review, war in Afghanistan, white house
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Why Did Dr. King Take on Anti-War Activism?
Posted: June 13, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Christianity, Gospel, Martin Luther King, nonviolence, peace, war
“…because I am determined to take the Gospel seriously.” –Martin Luther King, Jr., A Time to Break the Silence on Vietnam. Happy Sunday.
What Is Wrong with This Picture?
Posted: June 2, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Christianity, Jesus, nonviolence, peace, photo, tank
Dear President Obama: Easter Has Nothing To Do With War
Posted: April 4, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: antiwar, Christ, Christianity, Easter, Father Zabelka, Iwo Jima, Jesus, militarism, Obama, peace, war
Tear the Sky Apart with Light
Posted: December 25, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Christmas, Jesus, peace
Before the marvel of this night adoring fold your wings and bow, then tear the sky apart with light and with your news the world endow, proclaim the birth of Christ and peace, that fear and death and sorrow cease. Sing peace, sing peace, sing gift of peace, sing peace, sing gift of peace. … [...]
Afghan Youth Call for Peace
Posted: December 22, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, nonviolence, Our Journey To Smile, peace
Our Journey To Smile just published a new video showing Afghan youth calling for peace. Check it out: Hakim with Our Journey To Smile is a semi-regular commenter on Return Good for Evil. This is great work, Hakim. Keep it up.
A Prayer Attributed to St. Francis of Assisi
Posted: June 28, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Christianity, peace, prayer, St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, make us instruments of your peace. Where there is hatred, let us sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, union; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that we may not so much seek to be [...]
Scenes from Another September 11th
Posted: September 11, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: Gandhi, Jesus, nonviolence, peace, September 11, war on terror
