Onward Christian soldiers, morphing us to war.

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43 & Friends: A legacy of criminal pathology
p. m. carpenter's commentary
So this war wasn’t about War Objective Take 1 -- WMD. It wasn’t about War Objective Take 2 -- humanitarianism. It wasn’t about War Objective Take 3 -- regime change. It wasn’t about War Objective Take 4 -- freeing an oppressed people. It wasn’t even about the latest advertised war objective, the selfless objective to end all war objectives, which would be War Objective Take 5 -- establishing Middle East democracy.

But, and you’ll just have to take their word for it, the war really, really is about extinguishing Islamist extremism -- War Objective Take 6.

If I may, perhaps the administration should have explained this more than a year ago. On the other hand, that would have presented an entirely new host of public relations problems, since achieving War Objective Take 6 requires the invasion of at least a dozen other nations embedded with those human links to 9/11: Islamist extremists.

And here, of course, is where War Objective Take 6 meets Impossible Dream No. 1. No number of troops for any number of years occupying any number of nations will eradicate Islamist extremism, any more than a Nation magazine subscription for Pat Robertson would cure Pat of his Christian extremism.

http://pmcarpenter.blogs.com/p_m_carpenters_commentary/2005/06/43_friends_a_le.html

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1. One thing that bothers me

Everyone keeps hammering the “Christians”. It should be made clear that the Neocons and their agenda is USING religion for political gain and us real Christians who can see through this abuse are being lumped into a small but evil band. It is IMPORTANT for the Neocons to endorse religion even though they themselves don’t believe.

Religion is used by the Neocons to help defeat liberal individualism as it is much easier to control the masses when individualism is stifled. This is a practice not ONLY in Christianity, but Islam as Judaism as well.

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2. Do you ever wonder about the War Impulse?

Why? Especially when it is UN-NECESSARY!

For Brotherhood with my fellow Warriors?

For Meaning in "my" life?

For stimulation? To satisfy a physical addiction?

To proove something called "Faith"? or "Values"? or to me abot "me"?

I don't see how it can be for Faith, because Faith involves Humility to Surrender and serve in some degree, in my case the Lotus Feet/Logos of Lord Krsna, for others, surrender and service in their own lives, honestly, not with all of this conflation/inflation/crusades/pyramid schmes that are going on in the Evangelical church cartels.

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3. It is not done for faith

even though faith is used by the Neocons to make them look as morally correct people.

Again, Religion is part of the Neocon pratice for 1 reason and 1 reason only... to control the masses. It serves them NO other purpose to the Necons.

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4. I agree with you completely. Religion is being used.

Religion has strong physical corelates that are very useful to Rove.