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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: T L Comiskey who wrote (19266)	5/19/2003 8:55:50 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

<body count> Judging by the % of regular church-goers, the U.S. is the most Christian nation on earth. But I don't see anyone "turning the other cheek", or loving their enemies. It's like we took the Sermon on the Mount, and decided that being a patriotic American means doing the precise opposite. The Old Testament seems more to American's liking. Stern justice, "an eye for an eye". Lots of rules, and judges, and nasty consequences. So there had to be a reciprocal killing after 9/11. It only took until mid-way through the Afghan campaign, to equal the dead from the World Trade Center. But we kept on killing. The prisoners murdered by the warlord Dostum (while our Special Forces looked on), the "death by container", that by itself, in scale and savagery, equalled 9/11. But we kept killing. One eye, two eyes, three eyes, more, for each American eye. And now, Iraq, yet another measure of vengeance. All mis-targeted, we haven't touched Saudi Arabia, the nation where the terrorist's leader, recruits, funding, ideology comes from. Are we satiated yet? Are we, at least, going to aim better?