As for war, I have a really hard time justifying anything that we have done in Iraq. That particular war was started on non-sense. Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11, but we insisted that we were going to “fight the war on terror” in a place that now has much more terrorism because of our presence. But that is besides the point.
I do agree that Washington is full of people that have learned to play a game that has very little to do with serving the people of this nation. They have made our political arena into a joke. If I were the rest of the world I would be laughing at our pathetic excuse of a government. (dang, i didn’t realize I had such strong feelings towards our gov. )
So, all that to say, what do we do as followers of a Christ who came to usher in the New Kingdom, one that has another way, a new way, a better way to handle things like war. May we follow Him.

“A war can only be just if it is fought with a reasonable chance of success. Deaths and injury incurred in a hopeless cause are not morally justifiable.”

I don’t think that’s true. The American Revolution, as an example, wasn’t started with a reasonable chance of success. The British were considerably more prepared for victory. One could argue that the Axis powers in WWII had a decided advantage until the U.S. stepped in. And even if we hadn’t, which is unthinkable today, would not the deaths of Brits and Poles and Frenchman and Russians been morally justifiable in defending freedom and liberty?

To say “if we can’t win, then it’s not morally justifiable” is to say there aren’t causes worth dying for. In today’s political arena, the Iraq war in some minds isn’t justifiable. Yet when it’s all sifted out, usually it’s a case of political positioning instead of logic equally applied. If a political group hates a certain President then it’s somehow ok for them to ignore decades of torture and deaths of innocent Iraqi men, women and children. And it’s not ok to talk about anything positive that comes from freeing them from their dictator. (As proved every minute of everyday by our pathetic excuse for a news media)

When you talk with soldiers who have served in such causes (including Vietnam and the Korean Conflict) they will tell you that fighting to liberate others from oppression and tyranny was worth dying for, regardless of what our moronic politicians have to say about it.

Honestly, if we turned Washington DC into a giant toilet and flushed all the politicians and bureaucrats out to sea and have the void replaced with common sense, the world would be a better place. Infinitely so.

Kinldy visit my blogiste and read two posts

“Would Jesus Support War?”
and “A peaceful man that Muhammad was”

You may if you like give your peaceful comments and or have a peaceful discussion if you so choose.
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I am an Ahmadi peaceful Muslim