Hypothetical: What do you think would be happening between North Korea & ourselves if John McCain was currently president?

I was listening to a program on NPR about Blackwater USA, and what I heard had me a bit curious and concerned. What do you think?

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Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it, so here we go again ( Read more... )

"Try this, if it helps," he said. "How easy do you find it to think of the three people we're riding with as infidels, vile in their ways and loathsome to the god?"

Alvar blinked. "But we always knew there was honor in Al-Rassan."

Rodrigo shook his head. "No. Be honest. Think about this. Some of us did, Alvar. The clerics deny it to this ( Read more... )

Thomas Merton:
Ghandhi said, "To refuse military service when the time has come for it to be necessary, is to act after the time to combat the evil has run out." Compulsory military service is only a symptom of a deeper eveil. All who support thew state in its organizing for war or in policies that imply the willingness to organize for war, and ( Read more... )