A Faithful Response to the War

In his most recent Ethics Daily article, Jim Evans, pastor of Auburn First Baptist Church in Auburn, Alabama, briefly summarizes Tony Campolo's and Michael Lerner's plan for the Iraq war. It's one of the most reasonable I've read in a long time. Among other things, they call for our nation to repent. To many of us, it has been obvious for years that this war was wrong, but it has become increasingly apparent, even to the most staunchly republican among us, that it was based on lies and fabricated, false evidence.

But it's not enough to just point out the mistakes made by us and by our administration. Campolo and Lerner also have a plan to get American troops out of the Middle East with a minimum loss of life, and without making the situation in Iraq even worse: get the Arab League to send in soldiers to police the area while and after we pull out.

Maybe the current talks between us, Iraq, and their regional neighbours will come to the same conclusion. We did make the mess, but staying there to clean it up is not the answer. It just leaves us there as targets. (Thanks to "He Who Obeys SWMBO" (my Dad) for posting a link to the article on his blog).