Here are links to essays or posts of mine that I think may be of more than temporary interest (to me if no one else!) Note: this indexing is a work in progress, so it may not seem very complete at first.
Iraq-related essays
1.
Just cause exists for action against Iraq - My commentary published by the United Methodist News Service on the just causes of the then-impending invasion of Saddam-ruled Iraq.
2. Is UN approval required for the US to fight
Iraq? Why no treaty, including the UN Charter, can trump the US Constitution.
3. A little history of the United Nations. The Great Powers founded it to preserve their hegemony over the globe.
4.
American Holy War
5. Does the peace movement really have good
intentions? No.
Religion and war
6. 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.
7. Islamic Fundamentalism Explained, the religious roots of the
terror attacks against America (written in Sept. 2001)
8. The pacifist fallacies.
9. The backward thinking of anti-war religious pronouncements.
10. Why war objectors lack strategic vision
11. Politics, national interest and just war.
12. Categories of objections to war
13. A Brief Survey of What the Bible Says About
War
14. Is America Justified to Use Force?
15. 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?
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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
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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
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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
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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. . .
AA. 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.
AA. Manliness and its lack.
AA. The Confederate Gestapo; more here.
AA. Is there any organizing principle to the Bush administration?
AA. “True communism” - a true story of the old Soviet Union - Why planned economies cannot succeed
AA. The Trail of Political Christianity - an examination of Christian dominionism and its comparison to Islamism.
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