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Global Issues - AfghanistanWas the U.S. invasion necessary, if any wars are ever necessary? Maybe NATO should have invaded in 1998, after the theo-fascist Taliban started locking up their women, beheading nonconformists and destroying religious art. Those are more honorable intentions than private profit on the "silk pipeline" from Saudi Arabia to China. J did say some wars (and rumors of wars) were necessary, they were the "birth pains." Was this one? Forgiveness is a more difficult struggle than a terrorist jihad or a military occupation, but meanwhile, killing just keeps on killing.
The People won't take getting their buildings smashed. But the FBI strongly suspects a trusted U.S. military scientist of prodding the People's fear after 9/11. If you think the U.S. was tricked into Afghanistan on 9/11, well, then we're really in trouble. We respect the right of free thinkers to consider that possibility. Consider which major powers in the region benefit from the stabilization of this central asian trade, transportation and energy transmission nexus. The question is, why are we paying for it? Or rather, why are we borrowing for it?
The truth will set us all free. All people must be free to share their view of the truth for the truth to become known. Afghanistan was not free. It was a prisoner of many foreign interests using their peoples' pursuit of God to turn them into soldiers for life. The late twentieth century war (world war 3) was not cold. Was a hot war in Afghanistan, Vietnam and everyone else a necessary evil? Look within the heart and find that no evil is necessary. Love is all you need.
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The Korean missionaries held hostage by the Taliban are saints of peace... pray for them. They have far more courage that I. I chant hollow mantras of Christianity and hide in my room from a cruel world — they went into the heart of violence without weapons, without anger, to show compassion to their captors. No number of bombs or guns will melt the heart of Islamic extremists, but only compassion and peaceful resistance exercised by free will. If the Taliban kill the hostages, the hostages will be martyrs, in the true spirit of the word, not in the spirit of twisted anger and violence that both suicide bombers and western soldiers share. These men and women have far more courage than any soldier or terrorist. They dared to risk their lives to bring the Word to where it is not, to bring light into darkness. They may pay the price of their lives, and sadly, they may even be forgotten for it, but God will never forget, and they have already made a difference. We should follow them.Comments:
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