What Price Victory?

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

If the landmarks and memorials don’t lead to peace, it’s time to change directions.

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One,

Glory – yours.
Honor – yours.
Praise – yours.
Thanks – yours.
Blessing – yours.
Holiness – yours.
Wisdom – yours.
Might – yours.
Dominion – yours.

Well. Aren’t you special?!
Amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:

“Hard to imagine as it is sometimes, one day people will want to call all of you saints, except Judas. Over my dead body!”

D. Blog: Victory?

Those conducting the US occupation/war in Iraq-Afghanistan seem to believe their poorly-defined “victory” is worth any cost. Restrict the freedoms and civil rights that have made the nation a model for the world. Make the US an object of hatred in large portions of the world for generations to come. Make traveling US citizens and officials in those parts of the world the constant potential targets of violent retribution. Put our descendants into life-long indebtedness that severely endangers their quality of life. What a tangled web we weave…

To me it looks like the reversal of the promise of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” But our government “leaders” seem willing to pay that price, rather than to pay the price of peace – tolerance, understanding, compromise, forgiveness.