Given the fact that it’s impossible to un-ring the bell that tolled in March 2003, which unleashed the sectarian violence between Sunnis and Shiites, do you think the moral thing to do would be to 1) stay until Iraq is more stable; or 2) simply walk away and let the Sunnis and Shiites go back to blowing each other up?

During one of the debates, Governor Huckabee used the Colin Powell “Pottery Barn” analogy (”You break it, you’ve bought it”), for which he caught a lot of flack from other Republicans. But now that we’re finally (after more than four years) beginning to stem the violence, this isn’t the time to turn our backs on the Iraqi people and leave the country broken.

I don’t know if you’ve seen the latest Michael Yon photograph of Iraqi Muslims helping Iraqi Christians put the cross back on the top of their church. If you haven’t , here’s a link to it.

Golda Meir once said that “peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than hate us.”
To the extent that we can model that love, we stand a chance of being able to leave Iraq a better place than when we arrived.

The war is killing innocent children at an alarming rate.

Here are some pictures of those baby-killers “killing innocent children at an alarming rate.” I haven’t looked at all 417,000 images, but most of the first 100 or so are pretty inspiring. As violence continues to decrease in Iraq, as it has since the height of the surge in June, I fully expect to see more such images.

Re Huckabee’s position on life, here’s a quote from his website:

“To me, life doesn’t begin at conception and end at birth. Every child deserves a quality education, first-rate health care, decent housing in a safe neighborhood, and clean air and drinking water. Every child deserves the opportunity to discover and use his God-given gifts and talents.”

If you’d like to educate yourself about how he followed through on this while governor of Arkansas, a good place to start would be mikehuckabee.com.

The war is killing innocent children at an alarming rate. It is the, “Love the fetus, hate the child,” on full display.

I think that depends on how far back you want to go. If you go back to the beginnings of the Christian Right, clearly there were some for whom it was only about power. Sadly, that number has grown exponentially in recent years.

But if you go all the way back to the Cross, souls was all it was about.

Mike Huckabee is so much closer to the original teachings of Jesus than modern-day Pharisees like Robertson and Weyrich will ever be. But this thirst for power doesn’t surprise me; the Pharisees always loved to dine at the king’s table.