This was reposted on Middle East online.
It is so important that I printed it out. We simply must get to grips with North American fundamentalISM and realize what we do that causes such conflict.
This is in a very good format to be read online at the link below.
Technorati Tags: US Consitutition, fundamentalism, Pentagon, Christianity, James Carroll, Tom Engelhardt
It is so important that I printed it out. We simply must get to grips with North American fundamentalISM and realize what we do that causes such conflict.
This is in a very good format to be read online at the link below.
Recent history certainly
suggests that the Pentagon is now "unchecked." And if we can end our
present war by blaming the Iraqis, then the Pentagon will be immune
from criticism and prepared for the next foray of American power.
That's why we must challenge this laying the blame on the Iraqi people,
as if their "sectarianism" weighs more than our hubris.
*snip*
Carroll: (Pauses.)
Well, the last word in this conversation is: Religion and politics,
religion and military power, are a deadly mix in an age of weapons of
mass destruction; and, if the United States of America gets this wrong,
there's no reason to think anybody else is going to get it right.
Casting an eye across the century to come, this is the issue.
Technorati Tags: US Consitutition, fundamentalism, Pentagon, Christianity, James Carroll, Tom Engelhardt
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I'd note that there is a difference between religion and faith. Authentic faith is tolerant of others.
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