Master CraftsMon - Aired Monday, March 27, 2006 at about 11pm CST - Segment 2
Master CraftsMon - Aired Monday, March 27, 2006 at about 11pm CST
Segment 2
We are having our Spring fund drive. Call in and make a pledge. I shall play some music and take your pledge. I have no engineers or someone to take the phone, so that is what needs to be done. Don't be shy. Call right now at 779-5367 or 779-KEOS or donate securely at www.keos.org.
On the same day as Desmond T. Doss died, three members of the Christian Peacemaker Teams were freed in Baghdad by a force of American, British and Iraqi warriors. The Christian Peacemaker Teams are a set of pacifists who perceive that the United States should end its occupation of Iraq, because we are causing suffering over there and accomplishing no good. In their initial press release the group made it clear that had the United States not been in Iraq, they would not have been kidnaped. Only after much bad Public Relations did the group think to thank the military for freeing their people. It was kind of a lukewarm thanks at that.
There were four members of the Christian Peacemaker Teams when the initial kidnaping occurred on November 26 of last year. One of the four, American Tom Fox, was tortured and murdered. His body was dumped by the side of the road on March 9. It looks like to me that the Christian Peacemaker Teams refuses to condemn the Irreconcilables for killing their comrade.
As near as I can tell from what they have said, the Christian Peacemaker Teams believe that there is no such thing as a just war, thus the U.S. is doing something immoral. Under Christian theology, if you observe one neighbor attacking another and do nothing, then you are immoral. The split comes as to what to do to stop the violence. The basis for the just war doctrine is that there must be no other way to stop great evil being done before you can use violence yourself. The other alternative is to witness to the evil ones and change their hearts while comforting the oppressed and giving them the strength to endure their oppression.
The Christian Peacemaker Teams appear to be another street theater group. I may be mistaken, but they seem to be a very narcissistic group dedicated to making themselves feel good about trying to accomplish something without actually accomplishing anything. Evil exists. The CPT has explicitly said that they think that "the illegal occupation of Iraq by multinational forces" was the "root cause" of the kidnaping.
They have sided with the Palestinians and perceive that the Jews are the oppressors because of the balance of power which favors the Jews. Because the Jews are unwilling to kill noncombatants, the Christian Peacemaker Teams can constantly get in the way of the Jews trying to defend themselves against the suicide bombers without getting hurt. They do not seem to be interested in stopping the Palestinians from blowing up Jews.
In Iraq, the Christian Peacemaker Teams assume that the Irreconcilables are the victims of American imperialism. Again, they are not trying to stop the Irreconcilables from killing Americans. They have been in Iraq off and on since 2002. Before the Iraqi War, they attempted to stop the war by placing themselves between bombs and structures that the U.S. would likely bomb. Now their major focus is freeing the Irreconcilables who have been jailed by the U.S. military, documenting American abuses of the Iraqi population and effecting a total withdrawal from the Middle East by the U.S. At the same time they are REALLY interested in getting a huge amount of face time in front of the cameras. As I said they are into street theater.
Wait. I told this a while back, but I don't think you remember it. There was this guy in college in 1968 and his roommate was going to go down to Washington, D.C., and demonstrate against the Vietnam War. They were going to march on the Pentagon. That was a stupid thing to do, because the Pentagon has no power to change public policy. So this guy told his roommate that he was wasting his time. In fact, he was not doing his cause any good by blocking the roads into Washington or laying down in the street. The roommate said that he did not care. He wanted to prove that he, the roommate, was morally superior to everyone else by doing this project. Are you getting this? The goal of the project was to prove that the participants were morally superior, not to accomplish anything. When you do that, you are doing street theater.
Today, the Christian Peacemaker Teams are a set of people who get out in front of the cameras and prove to all their friends that they are morally superior to just about everyone else. Their goal is to make their friends respect them. Their goal is not to accomplish much of anything. They are, in fact, a set of street actors, not really activists. It just looks like they are activists bent on some goal. If you are an activist, then you have to have an achievable goal. The CPT doesn't really.
I bring up Desmond Doss and the Christian Peacemaker Teams as a way of showing how the times have changed. In World War II, it was obvious to anyone who had sense that the Germans, Italians and the Japanese were bent on imposing totalitarian rule on every person on Earth using violence. The CPT and our Liberal establishment cannot seem to condemn the Irreconcilables for their unseemly habit of hacking people's heads off and dropping their bodies beside the road.
Desmond Doss felt it was his duty to stop that from happening in some small way. He was able to determine who the forces of evil were and try to stop them. His pacifism was a private thing. He would not kill, but he did not demand that others believe as he believed. He could see that violence had to be used to stop the evil from occurring.
The Christian Peacemaker Teams believe that there is no such thing as a bad peace or a good war. They want to impose their pacifism on everyone they meet. Their position gets kind of mushy after that. It appears to me that only the United States and other Western powers come in for their wrath. I don't know for sure. They and many on the Left have come to the conclusion that the Irreconcilables can be placated and appeased. If the United States would just withdraw from the world stage, then everything would be just great. The problem with that assertion is that the Irreconcilables of radical Islam will not go away, nor will they stop until every person on this planet who disagrees with them has been killed, enslaved, converted to Islam or made a second class citizen in a worldwide caliphate. For some reason this does not seem to penetrate to groups like the Christian Peacemaker Teams.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair put it this way in a speech this week, insurgency forces "play our own media with a shrewdness that would be the envy of many a political party. Every act of carnage adds to the death toll. But somehow, it serves to indicate our responsibility for disorder, rather than the act of wickedness that causes it. For us, so much of our opinion believes that what was done in Iraq in 2003 was so wrong that it is reluctant to accept what is plainly right now." Think about that for a moment. The war in Iraq was started incorrectly by too many on the Left. It thus follows that the outcome of the war must be so evil that the freedom that the Iraqis have right now must be sacrificed to atone for our getting rid of Saddam Hussein incorrectly.
By my standards pacifism should be an individual choice. Desmond Doss made the Choice that he would not allow evil to grow, but he personally would not use violence to stop it. The Christian Peacemaker Teams are so convinced if the rectitude of their position, that they are willing to allow evil to grow as long as the West does not use violence to stop its growth. If the Christian Peacemaker Teams were condemning the Irreconcilables as harshly as they condemn the West, then I would have some respect for their position. They are not. They excuse the barbaric behavior of the Irreconcilables, because they agree that the West has treated them badly. Or so that seems. I may be mistaken, but it surely looks like the Christian Peacemaker Teams agree that the invasion of Iraq was so wrong that nothing can make it right except by our pulling out and letting the Iraqis twist in the wind.
The Iraqi government are not happy with the CPT. The position of the Iraqi government is that the CPT has sided with the Irreconcilables against the majority of Iraqis. You see what has gotten everyone upset is that the CPT was slow to thank the soldiers who saved them and then the freed hostages dumped on the multinational forces and THEN would not allow the military a chance to debrief them on their time being held hostage. If they had allowed the military to debrief them, maybe other hostages could be freed. The CPT takes the position that they will not help free other hostages because violence against the hostage takers might result. Wouldn't want to be the cause of those benign head hackers being hurt, now would we?
Segment 2
We are having our Spring fund drive. Call in and make a pledge. I shall play some music and take your pledge. I have no engineers or someone to take the phone, so that is what needs to be done. Don't be shy. Call right now at 779-5367 or 779-KEOS or donate securely at www.keos.org.
On the same day as Desmond T. Doss died, three members of the Christian Peacemaker Teams were freed in Baghdad by a force of American, British and Iraqi warriors. The Christian Peacemaker Teams are a set of pacifists who perceive that the United States should end its occupation of Iraq, because we are causing suffering over there and accomplishing no good. In their initial press release the group made it clear that had the United States not been in Iraq, they would not have been kidnaped. Only after much bad Public Relations did the group think to thank the military for freeing their people. It was kind of a lukewarm thanks at that.
There were four members of the Christian Peacemaker Teams when the initial kidnaping occurred on November 26 of last year. One of the four, American Tom Fox, was tortured and murdered. His body was dumped by the side of the road on March 9. It looks like to me that the Christian Peacemaker Teams refuses to condemn the Irreconcilables for killing their comrade.
As near as I can tell from what they have said, the Christian Peacemaker Teams believe that there is no such thing as a just war, thus the U.S. is doing something immoral. Under Christian theology, if you observe one neighbor attacking another and do nothing, then you are immoral. The split comes as to what to do to stop the violence. The basis for the just war doctrine is that there must be no other way to stop great evil being done before you can use violence yourself. The other alternative is to witness to the evil ones and change their hearts while comforting the oppressed and giving them the strength to endure their oppression.
The Christian Peacemaker Teams appear to be another street theater group. I may be mistaken, but they seem to be a very narcissistic group dedicated to making themselves feel good about trying to accomplish something without actually accomplishing anything. Evil exists. The CPT has explicitly said that they think that "the illegal occupation of Iraq by multinational forces" was the "root cause" of the kidnaping.
They have sided with the Palestinians and perceive that the Jews are the oppressors because of the balance of power which favors the Jews. Because the Jews are unwilling to kill noncombatants, the Christian Peacemaker Teams can constantly get in the way of the Jews trying to defend themselves against the suicide bombers without getting hurt. They do not seem to be interested in stopping the Palestinians from blowing up Jews.
In Iraq, the Christian Peacemaker Teams assume that the Irreconcilables are the victims of American imperialism. Again, they are not trying to stop the Irreconcilables from killing Americans. They have been in Iraq off and on since 2002. Before the Iraqi War, they attempted to stop the war by placing themselves between bombs and structures that the U.S. would likely bomb. Now their major focus is freeing the Irreconcilables who have been jailed by the U.S. military, documenting American abuses of the Iraqi population and effecting a total withdrawal from the Middle East by the U.S. At the same time they are REALLY interested in getting a huge amount of face time in front of the cameras. As I said they are into street theater.
Wait. I told this a while back, but I don't think you remember it. There was this guy in college in 1968 and his roommate was going to go down to Washington, D.C., and demonstrate against the Vietnam War. They were going to march on the Pentagon. That was a stupid thing to do, because the Pentagon has no power to change public policy. So this guy told his roommate that he was wasting his time. In fact, he was not doing his cause any good by blocking the roads into Washington or laying down in the street. The roommate said that he did not care. He wanted to prove that he, the roommate, was morally superior to everyone else by doing this project. Are you getting this? The goal of the project was to prove that the participants were morally superior, not to accomplish anything. When you do that, you are doing street theater.
Today, the Christian Peacemaker Teams are a set of people who get out in front of the cameras and prove to all their friends that they are morally superior to just about everyone else. Their goal is to make their friends respect them. Their goal is not to accomplish much of anything. They are, in fact, a set of street actors, not really activists. It just looks like they are activists bent on some goal. If you are an activist, then you have to have an achievable goal. The CPT doesn't really.
I bring up Desmond Doss and the Christian Peacemaker Teams as a way of showing how the times have changed. In World War II, it was obvious to anyone who had sense that the Germans, Italians and the Japanese were bent on imposing totalitarian rule on every person on Earth using violence. The CPT and our Liberal establishment cannot seem to condemn the Irreconcilables for their unseemly habit of hacking people's heads off and dropping their bodies beside the road.
Desmond Doss felt it was his duty to stop that from happening in some small way. He was able to determine who the forces of evil were and try to stop them. His pacifism was a private thing. He would not kill, but he did not demand that others believe as he believed. He could see that violence had to be used to stop the evil from occurring.
The Christian Peacemaker Teams believe that there is no such thing as a bad peace or a good war. They want to impose their pacifism on everyone they meet. Their position gets kind of mushy after that. It appears to me that only the United States and other Western powers come in for their wrath. I don't know for sure. They and many on the Left have come to the conclusion that the Irreconcilables can be placated and appeased. If the United States would just withdraw from the world stage, then everything would be just great. The problem with that assertion is that the Irreconcilables of radical Islam will not go away, nor will they stop until every person on this planet who disagrees with them has been killed, enslaved, converted to Islam or made a second class citizen in a worldwide caliphate. For some reason this does not seem to penetrate to groups like the Christian Peacemaker Teams.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair put it this way in a speech this week, insurgency forces "play our own media with a shrewdness that would be the envy of many a political party. Every act of carnage adds to the death toll. But somehow, it serves to indicate our responsibility for disorder, rather than the act of wickedness that causes it. For us, so much of our opinion believes that what was done in Iraq in 2003 was so wrong that it is reluctant to accept what is plainly right now." Think about that for a moment. The war in Iraq was started incorrectly by too many on the Left. It thus follows that the outcome of the war must be so evil that the freedom that the Iraqis have right now must be sacrificed to atone for our getting rid of Saddam Hussein incorrectly.
By my standards pacifism should be an individual choice. Desmond Doss made the Choice that he would not allow evil to grow, but he personally would not use violence to stop it. The Christian Peacemaker Teams are so convinced if the rectitude of their position, that they are willing to allow evil to grow as long as the West does not use violence to stop its growth. If the Christian Peacemaker Teams were condemning the Irreconcilables as harshly as they condemn the West, then I would have some respect for their position. They are not. They excuse the barbaric behavior of the Irreconcilables, because they agree that the West has treated them badly. Or so that seems. I may be mistaken, but it surely looks like the Christian Peacemaker Teams agree that the invasion of Iraq was so wrong that nothing can make it right except by our pulling out and letting the Iraqis twist in the wind.
The Iraqi government are not happy with the CPT. The position of the Iraqi government is that the CPT has sided with the Irreconcilables against the majority of Iraqis. You see what has gotten everyone upset is that the CPT was slow to thank the soldiers who saved them and then the freed hostages dumped on the multinational forces and THEN would not allow the military a chance to debrief them on their time being held hostage. If they had allowed the military to debrief them, maybe other hostages could be freed. The CPT takes the position that they will not help free other hostages because violence against the hostage takers might result. Wouldn't want to be the cause of those benign head hackers being hurt, now would we?
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