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Here are
my essays on topics relevant to various topics and events. Usually,
these are long postings that first appeared as a daily entries.
Essays are
arranged by category.
IRAQ CONFLICT
RELATED ESSAYS
Just cause exists for action against Iraq - My commentary published
by the United Methodist News Service
Is UN approval required for the US
to fight Iraq? Why
no treaty, including the UN Charter, can trump the US Constitution.
A little history of the United Nations The Great Powers founded it to preserve
their hegemony over the globe
Why isolationism cannot work for America
American Holy War
Containing Saddam: There must be no
Cold War re-run!
Does the peace movement really have
good intentions? No.
RELIGION AND WAR
Western Law, Islamic Law and the Ordering
of Society
What's
at stake in the struggle with Arab-Muslim terrorists
Once you
have read my essay, go to read, "Why
We Fight America,"
by al Qaeda spokesman Suleiman Abu Gheith, released June 21,
2002.
Islamic Fundamentalism Explained The religious roots
of the terror attacks against America (written in Sept. 2001)
The pacifist fallacies.
The backward thinking of anti-war religious
pronouncements.
Why war objectors lack strategic vision
Politics, national interest and just
war
Categories of objections to war
A Brief Survey of What the Bible Says
About 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
The left-wing of the Church is at it
again - Brit clerics
call potential campaign against Iraq "wicked and foolhardy"
RELIGION
Is
God the Problem?
The God we worship shapes the kind of people we are.
The metrosexual Jesus - Would you trust
your eternity to this guy? Neither would I.
Justified homicide by clergy
Jesus the Jew
"Religion makes some people murderously
violent, but with others,
it seems to cause blind idiocy."
Is Christianity more user-friendly
than Islam? - Why language
matters
Pastoral failure and military service; Worshiping a golden calf of "peace"
and fantasy theology; how the Church fails its youth
A four-part series:
The Big Picture: There's a difference between a rationale for
the war and its casus belli. See also Iraq
is the opening act
Ending Saddam's regime without war
- there are no perfect solutions, selection of risks must be
made
Politics, national interest
and just war - Part
One and Part
Two
Why Iraq Will Defeat Arms Inspectors - Explained by Gary Milhollin, director
of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control, and Kelly Motz,
editor of IraqWatch.org.
Saddam's most dangerous failure - Saddam's fundamental ineptitude
as a leader is exactly what makes him singularly dangerous.
Fighting a winter campaign in Iraq: Operational considerations of a large-scale
campaign this winter. (I wrote this in August 2002 and then predicted
a campaign against Iraq no earlier than mid-February 2003, if
one came.)
Belling the cat by general assembly - A modern fable
The United Mouse General Assembly gathered to discuss the lethal
threat against them posed by the cat.
Is al Qaeda Already Finished?
They were not prepared for the American response to 9/11
The plantation mentality of the Left - The
little people just want a hot supper, the rest is beyond their
simple concerns
Saddened, but not surprised - it was never a question of "if,"
but only of "when" and "how"; why I have
never been angry at the terror attacks
Historical
Development of the Separation of Church and State in the West
- Part
1 and
Part
2.
A couple of important events that separated the secular and the
spiritual.
The heart of the problem between the
Palestinians and Israel
why lasting peace will be so difficult to gain.
What sank the S.S. Lusitania?
Western Muslims' despair of
the Muslim world: here
and here
and here
and here
DOMESTIC ISSUES
Why State Lotteries are "Stupidity
Taxes" and Here
If Congress votes reparations, everybody
will be black.
That which is subsidized, increases - it's the oldest law of
economics
Civilization, Violence, Sovereignty
and the Second Amendment
Why the right to keep and bear arms is the fundamental right
of a sovereign people.
REFLECTIONS
The only other Confederate executed
for war crimes - The
Andersonville POW camp's commandant was one, and well known.
Here is the story of the only other Confederate soldier executed
for war crimes by the US government. But was the execution real,
or staged? A fascinating, true story.
What makes a hero?
Ordinary people do extraordinary things
Evolution and Creationism -- why the current
political arguments are uninformed and misguided.
Ambush journalism Thoughts on journalistic accountability
How Parisian taxicabs wrecked the world. Would the world now be better off
if Germany had won the Battle of the Marne? An historical thought
experiment. . .
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