After watching the debate on Monday night, I can’t help but wonder where we as a nation are headed. On stage we had 4 pro-war candidates and 1 peace candidate. If you listen to all of the candidates speak about our military and about Iran, save Paul, you can hear the war drums blaring in the background as they without hesitation say that we need to spend more money on our military and we need to intervene with Iran. When Ron Paul mentioned that maybe we should apply the Golden Rule to our foreign policy, the crowd overwhelmingly began to boo.
All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye so to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
Matthew 7:1
Why would that be such a bad idea?
I work with a lady that is, I guess the best way to say it is very involved with her church. Yet she endorses and advocates war after war in the middle east. How can being Christian and having such a pro-war attitude go hand-in-hand? Casualties cannot be discriminated during war. Countless innocent women and children are killed during war, and when a war is unjust, I just don’t see how someone can be such an advocate of the war and at the same time pretend to be such a Christian person.
Plot summary: In 2001, four Pakistani Britons, Ruhal Ahmed, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul and another friend, Monir, travel to Pakistan for a wedding and in a urge of idealism, decide to see the situation of war torn Afganistan which is being bombed by the American forces in retaliation for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Once [...]
President Obama’s first term (and hopefully last) as POTUS might as well be called President Bush’s third term, given the vast number of similarities (pretty much everything) between the two. Even their speeches are just rehashed versions of one another:
Today we are part of a broad coalition. We are answering the calls of a threatened people. And we are acting in the interests of the United States and the world…
President Obama, March 19, 2011
American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger…
President Bush, March 19, 2003
Plot summary: In April, 2004, casualties mount in Iraq. At Quantico, choices focus on increasing troop strength or only replacing casualties. Lt. Col. Mike Strobl crunches numbers. Stung by his superior’s rejection of his recommendation because he lacks recent combat experience, Strobl volunteers for escort duty, accompanying the remains Pfc. Chance Phelps, killed at 19. [...]
A walk around the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park in Mobile, Alabama.
A few photos from this set
Memorial Day is a special holiday that is often times over looked as just the monday off that creates another three day weekend. Yesterday we picked up a new flag and bracket to fly it from our house. Today we are very proud to be flying that flag, and will remember those that are responsible for giving us the freedoms we have today by making the ultimate sacrifice in defending and protecting our nation.
Memorial Day
We walked among the crosses
Where our fallen soldiers lay.
And listened to the bugle
As TAPS began to play.
The Chaplin led a prayer
We stood with heads bowed low.
And I thought of fallen comrades
I had known so long ago.
They came from every city
Across this fertile land.
That we might live in freedom.
They lie here ‘neath the sand.
I felt a little guilty
My sacrifice was small.
I only lost a little time
But these men lost their all.
Now the services are over
For this Memorial Day.
To the names upon these crosses
I just want to say,
Thanks for what you’ve given
No one could ask for more.
May you rest with God in heaven
From now through evermore.
— C W Johnson
You don’t have to make the headlines to make a difference.
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