tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post3372553140862675794..comments2024-03-28T11:33:16.271-05:00Comments on Adventus: And in other extremely disturbing newsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-32194372403293815052015-02-06T14:23:15.692-06:002015-02-06T14:23:15.692-06:00"Then Jesus said to him, ‘Put your sword back..."Then Jesus said to him, ‘Put your sword back into its place; for all who take the sword will perish by the sword."<br /><br />Does the passage apply to drone bombs, suicide bombs, beheadings, burnings, automatic weapons, or just to swords? <br /> <br />We don't know what we are doing over there. We don't know who are our friends and who are our enemies, and that can change in a day. A simple question we ought to ask ourselves but will not: Are the people in Iraq better off since we invaded? We should just say we've won, get the hell out, and let the people in the Middle East straighten out the bloody mess...or not.June Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723016934182800437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-32799332547203620942015-02-05T08:20:49.984-06:002015-02-05T08:20:49.984-06:00Bygones.
If we kill 'em all this time, there ...Bygones.<br /><br />If we kill 'em all this time, there will be no more backlash. Alternately, we can invent a time machine and go back to some convenient point in history, maybe 1953, and stop CIA coups and whatnot...ntoddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01068160577299501895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-53551403458708371872015-02-05T05:51:55.652-06:002015-02-05T05:51:55.652-06:00The West has been misunderstanding those countries...The West has been misunderstanding those countries for centuries, violence only increasing a violent response. After what came out of Reagan's policy in Afghanistan you'd think people could learn something about the creation of these mega-terror groups but now we've got one spawned from Bush II's invasion of Iraq. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-25985046849542844092015-02-05T04:53:43.859-06:002015-02-05T04:53:43.859-06:00They're saying this is a turning point in Jord...They're saying this is a turning point in Jordan, and perhaps elsewhere on the worldwide "Arab Street". Only if the Arab Street turns against ISIS, definitively, will the growth in recruits slow then stop.JCFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14516376500318551838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-43780645942588904072015-02-04T21:42:55.567-06:002015-02-04T21:42:55.567-06:00Nuke it from space...etc?
*sips red wine thoughtf...Nuke it from space...etc?<br /><br />*sips red wine thoughtfully?*ntoddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01068160577299501895noreply@blogger.com