Mark Shea's Blog: So That No Thought of Mine, No Matter How Stupid, Should Ever Go Unpublished Again!
And the soft-handed chickenhawk Lindsey Graham and bellicose John McCain have always been right about every war they have pushed for: Our troops have infinite endurance and we can keep shoveling them around like concrete and keeping their families on food stamps forever. Anything to keep our Ruling Classes feeling good about themsleves as they [Read More...]
Of course, they are just Christians, and the one constant of our Mideast policy is the destruction of the Church. Meanwhile, here in America, more disloyal Syrian Christians question our just and wise Leader, even as a foreign potentate undermines America’s campaign to bring salvation through democratic capitalist bombing. [Read more...]
…that the one single solitary sure fire result of our Mideast policy is the destruction of the Church. Our friendship with and enmity toward Saddam and bin Laden and Al Quaida and Khaddafy and Egypt may wax and wane over the years, but our tendency to create death and exile for Christians is as constant [Read More...]
…doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do something rash, stupid, and futile. Something must done. Bombing is something! Therefore we must bomb one or both sides in the hope of killing somebody bad! How can you just *sit* there when people we aren’t killing are dying? [Read more...]
…against a lawless president bent on war–when he’s a Republican. When it’s our Dear Leader on the other hand… Bomb Syria, Even if It Is Illegal On the plus side, not all Lefties are spaniels cheering for Obama to establish his manhood by rushing into a stupid act of war. [Read more...]
Yesterday, on FB, I posed the question of whether, due to the extremity of the current crisis, the United States ought to launch a devastating military strike against Miley Cyrus. Turns out I’m not far off the mark when it comes to the weighty issues that preoccupy the Wisdom of the Voters in our great [Read More...]
He adds to yesterday’s information: You can read Fr. Ford’s article from 1944 on obliteration bombing online: If anyone were to declare that modern war is necessarily total, and necessarily involves direct attack on the life of innocent civilians, and, therefore, that obliteration bombing is justified, my reply would be: So much the worse for [Read More...]
…suppose we stop bombing and occupying Muslim lands? [Read more...]
just to make America look bad. There are, of course, rebuttals to the facts presented. One popular one is “This comes from a ritually impure site, therefore the facts it presents about the massive uptick in cancer and birth defects can be ignored.” Another one is, “War is a prudential judgment, but abortion is always [Read More...]
These savages, the same ones who attacked us on 9/11 (since they are, many of them, Al-Quaida), are now mysteriously the people we are supporting in a conflict I cannot, for the life of me, see any need for us to be involved in. If America was a person, her family would stage an intervention [Read More...]
…we were smart enough to know that the way to fight wars was to divide the population against its leaders. So we broadcast into enemies countries and presented a picture of the Allies and the West that made subjects of the Nazi and Soviet regimes envy their country’s enemies. It relied on a belief latent [Read More...]
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