they usually exclude the military. John Cole found one example that shows this exclusion is another winger mistake:
U.S. troops arrived here in 2005 to flush out al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters. They stayed on the theory that their presence drew insurgents away from areas where the U.S. role is more tolerated and there is a greater desire for development. The troops were, in essence, bullet magnets.
In 2010, a new set of commanders concluded that the United States had blundered into a blood feud with fierce and clannish villagers who wanted, above all, to be left alone. By this logic, subduing the Korengal wasn’t worth the cost in American blood.
5 years is far too long to excuse this kind of mistake and this suggests that we should pull out now.
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kind of on the subject...
Iran's religious extremists-
and that of Sunni Moslems- have perhaps less power than America's.
At least when combined with that of Israeli setllers!
http://niqnaq.wordpress.com/2010/04/15/check-this-out-its-interesting/
http://www.borderfirereport.net/chuck-baldwin/army-report-says-christians-threaten-us-foreign-policy.php
Ken,
The Stucker report is VERY interesting and I can see why Pastor Baldwin didn't like it at all.
I suppose Baldwin is not a dispensational premillenialist, the fancy theological term for Christian Zionist. However I mailed him telling him, it is one thing to desire an imminent return of Christ, it is quite another to buy into a cultish eschatology which forces the adherent to show undue loyalty to the right wing political parties of a foreign nation in a regional powderkeg none of America's proper concern.
Concluding with an admonishment to him that non-dispensationlists
should long ago have devoted as much energy as it took to marginalizing the Christian Zionists from conservative Christianity. They didn't,and are still rallying to their side, bringing all of the Christian Right, so-called, into disrepute.
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