I want to veto war!
There is a blog called The Iraq War Was Wrong Blog, whose motto is, I am not kidding, "A wrong war like during the Iraq war was cannot just be sitted idly by by."

Anyway, it notes that opposition to the Iraq campaign included,

... ministers and other types of holy guys - it doesn't get much higher then that when it comes to whether or not something Just War.

When I read that I laughed so hard I almost spewed my coffee. I am glad to see that someone, at last, has such an elevated regard for ministers and other holy guys (sexist language alert!), but really, on the subject of foreign policy, and especially war decision, ministers and other holy guys are about the most ignorant class on the planet. And the higher their office, usually the more profoundly ignorant they are.

But wait! There's more! "What about this," the anonymous blogger says,

A Constitutional amendment prohibiting the United States from entering into ANY war unless it is deemed to be a Just War by appropriate theologicans (i.e. we could start by using the ones who told us as how The IRaq War was not a Just War - assembled into a kind of Council/Chamber (I'm flexible on termonology here)). I know a Constiututional amendment is usually considered extreme but I think a Just War amendment may be necessary at this point, How else are we going to stave off this worrying mixture of religion and state that Bush has ingendered)?

(All spelling errors are original.) Anon wants to "stave off" mixing politics and religion, so his solution is to give clergy - but only the clergy who agree with him - veto authority over the most serious issue ever to face the country.

At first I thought this blog was really a parody of the foolishness of Leftism today, but no, it seems Anon is serious. And I'm still laughing.

Anyway, here are relevant essays of mine:

The pacifist fallacies.

The backward thinking of anti-war religious pronouncements.

Why war objectors lack strategic vision.

Politics, national interest and just war.

Is America Justified to Use Force?

The problem with pacifism is pacifists.

An idea is not a plan! Wishful thinking passes for theological reflection nowadays.

by Donald Sensing, 8/19/2004 05:33:36 PM. Permalink |