JESUS AND THE SUICIDE BOMBER...?

Humam al-Balwai, the suicide bomber who murdered seven CIA employees in Afghanistan was a brilliant Jordanian physician who recorded a “martyrdom video” before his death expressing hatred of America and his own nation. After watching that video on Arab TV, the father of the killer said: “We are not surprised. Fighting the arrogant, unjust, haughty and tyrant American who kills civilians and innocent people makes the whole Islamic world hate America.” He then added, “They say that Jesus gave his life to people. I say that Humam sacrificed his body and soul for the oppressed.” The bereaved father ignores the distinction between the New Testament account of dying to give eternal life to those you love, and dying to deliver death to those you hate. Blinded by fanaticism, jihadist sympathizers deny the difference between Jesus and a suicide bomber.
-Thursday, January 14, 2010 by Michael Medved

Sarah Palin

"Horrible decision, absolutely horrible. It is devastating for so many of us to hear that the Obama Administration decided that the 9/11 terrorist mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, will be given a criminal trial in New York. This is an atrocious decision....(He) may walk away from this trial without receiving just punishment because of a 'hung jury' or from any variety of court room technicalities. If we are stuck with this terrible Obama Administration decision, I, like most Americans, hope that Mohammed and his co-conspirators are convicted. Hang ‘em high." -Sarah Palin on her Facebook Page

I thought about my post on Clint Eastwood's "Hang 'Em High" after reading this quote.

Fox News Military Strategy....

Bill O'Reilly: We need to go in there and blow the hell out of them.
Military Analyst: "And you cant over-worry collateral damage."

Anti-War Heretic....???

Tempted...again and again...

"The war in Vietnam is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit, and if we ignore this sobering reality we will find ourselves organizing clergy and laymen-concerned committees for the next generation. They will be concerned about Guatemala and Peru. They will be concerned about Thailand and Cambodia. They will be concerned about Mozambique and South Africa. We will be marching for these and a dozen other names and attending rallies without end unless there is a significant and profound change in American life and policy. ...."I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a 'thing-oriented' society to a 'person-oriented' society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered. ...."A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. (Martin Luther King, April 4, 1967 "A Time to Break Silence: Declaration of Independence from the Vietnam War")

So...the U.S. House of Representatives approved a $636 billion military spending bill on Wednesday that funds the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It reminds me of these quotes and the temptation of Jesus by Satan.

"Over grown military establishments are under any form of governments inauspicious to liberty and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." -George Washington

"The means of defense against foreign danger have historically become the instruments of tyranny at home." -James Madison

"If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." -James Madison

Nation building as a result of a policy of American Interventionism is more than likely simply Economic Colonialism at the heart. I know that protection from foreign terrorists, liberty and democracy are the mantra of the war machine...but I am growing more and more convinced that there are far greater agendas at play in this Empire's actions in the world theater. Satan always offers kings...Bread (Economic Power)...the Kingdoms of the World (Military Power) and Public Piety (Religious Power).

Money, Military and Religion...all three powers are at play in full force in this era.

Did you know...?

"A few days after 9/11, elements in the Taliban reached out to the US. They wanted political cover to turn over Osama Bin Laden, and to save their own emirate. This was an important opening, but the Bush administration decided to snub them. In mid-October, the Taliban's no. 3, Haji Abdul Kabir told reporters. "We would be ready to hand [Bin Laden] over to a third country" if the bombing ended. Once more, Bush demurred. It was not his style to negotiate. This is when the Afghan war was lost: not at Tora Bora but at a press conference at Jalalabad. If the US had taken the Taliban up on this offer, Bin Laden would have been in custody in a third country and tried in an international court.