Chuck Colson Says Afghan War No Longer Justifiable

[OmahaBlueDog]

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I recently came across a quote by one of the nation's fiercest critics of the Vietnam War, Senator William Fulbright, who chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Fulbright questioned, and I quote, "the ability of the United States to go into a small, alien, undeveloped Asian nation and create stability where there is chaos . . . democracy where there is no tradition of it, and honest government where corruption is almost a way of life."

He said this back in the 1960s about Vietnam. He certainly could have said it about our involvement in Afghanistan were he here today.


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And it is the Christian understanding of Just War that leads me to say that the war we are fighting in Afghanistan today is no longer morally justifiable.


From: "Break Point"
Obama's Wars, America's Problem 9/29/2010

More At: http://www.breakpoint.org/bpcommentaries/entry/13/15431

[Manifestor_of_Light]

1. Chuck Colson. Convicted felon and hypocrite. Why listen to him?

[OmahaBlueDog]

2. He is all that you say, but he is also a fundie/conservative who has now come out for ending the war

In this case, his opinion does have an additional crediility in as much as he served a President in a situation with a lot of parallels -- Nixon inherited a war that most of America (by 69, anyway) wanted to end.

If nothing else: if you live in a congressional district with a conservative, Republican member of congress, send him a copy of this and urge him to speak out for bringing the troops back home.

[gratuitous]

3. "No longer"?

Colson is hardly the person I'd go to looking for a war rationale, even if he's finally gotten it right. I decline to lend him any credibility now.