Throwing stones

There aren’t that many people who heard the old words ascribed to Our Lord Jesus Christ “Let him who has sinned not – cast the first stone”. This may sound like a preposterous statement but it is only too evident in our daily lives.

Most of us seem to dislike wars or even passionately hate wars.

Right now the United States happens to be involved in a war overseas. Throughout history of United States there have been more frequent wars than most other countries.

A good 20, 30 or 40 years have passed, since we began to realize that our involvement in Viet-Nam was a sorely needed military action that has saved very many lives. Certainly this act of saving other people’s lives and waging a war overseas does not earn very many admirers here at home – usually not at the time of the engagement. How do we know exactly what is it that is at stake in any given war/conflict? We don’t.

By acting presumptuously we are most often (in my view) unpatriotic. The very same president we all elected according to our own laws, is now being discredited or doubted in some more serious way. I can’t say for sure what is at stake in Afghanistan, Iraq or Iran – but it’s plainly obvious that there is a lot of oil that we in the modern day United States depend on, while the local governments are being openly hostile to the U.S. interests. Did we all forget the oil embargo and shortages of 1970s?

Did we not see president Hugo Chavez of Venezuela arrive in Harlem, NY, to thumb his nose at the entire North American continent on account of owning a good deal of oil reserves?

Any intelligent discussion can be perverted by calling it pro “this”, or anti “that”.

People who support abortion call themselves “pro-choice” because they wish the women to have the choice. The anti-abortionists call themselves “pro-life” – as if anybody else were pro-death (?!?). By the same token some pedestrian thinker may elect to re-name this position of mine “pro-war”. Nothing could be further from the truth. But given the fact that we are already faced with given (existing) hostilities, on a long run it might be the wisest choice to engage the potential enemy militarily and discourage any future threats to our homeland. So what if we have to wait a little longer in the airport security lines? I never heard anybody complain about waiting that long in any United States bank on every single Friday afternoon – do we not wait like sheep while there are only two or three windows open and the line is three deep?

In conclusion, let’s not throw too many stones at President Bush, he seems to be smart enough to have weighed all the options.