More on that national day of Prayer and Fasting and WTF
Notes on the atrocities has a good few posts on it. Particularly striking to me was this:
Let's leave aside for the moment the Constitutional issues (the resolution was non-binding). Let's instead look merely at the strategic implications of such a public move. The US is at war against a Muslim country. Its standing throughout the Muslim world is just slightly better than Israel's. We're so unpopular in the Muslim country we're attacking that the locals would prefer the 30-year reign of terror continue rather than welcome Amercans to "liberate" them. And now 346 Christian politicians have called on God to defeat the Iraqis.
Read the rest of the post. And this is the point. As if the Iraqis and rest of the Arab world needed more evidence to convince them that this was a Holy War. Brilliant.
Not to mention the fact that this whole "War on Terror" is against Islamic fundamentalism. But of course we have no problem with Christian fundamentalism. What's a nine letter word for "hypocrisy"?
Notes on the atrocities has a good few posts on it. Particularly striking to me was this:
Let's leave aside for the moment the Constitutional issues (the resolution was non-binding). Let's instead look merely at the strategic implications of such a public move. The US is at war against a Muslim country. Its standing throughout the Muslim world is just slightly better than Israel's. We're so unpopular in the Muslim country we're attacking that the locals would prefer the 30-year reign of terror continue rather than welcome Amercans to "liberate" them. And now 346 Christian politicians have called on God to defeat the Iraqis.
Read the rest of the post. And this is the point. As if the Iraqis and rest of the Arab world needed more evidence to convince them that this was a Holy War. Brilliant.
Not to mention the fact that this whole "War on Terror" is against Islamic fundamentalism. But of course we have no problem with Christian fundamentalism. What's a nine letter word for "hypocrisy"?
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