"broad and seething rejections from all corners of the globe." Thanks Bush

[seventhson]

http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/fwis/

EXCELLENT article that should be shouted from the rooftops and be all over the progressive web. PLEASE pass it on to friends and foes alike:

Excerpt:

1. With the war in Iraq, America's leadership and its influence have crumbled worldwide. The Iraqi war, they say, is "immoral, unlawful and unjustifiable."

The real news about such a position as this is not that others are saying what the circumstances clearly demonstrate but that Americans, who claim to be the ultimate defenders of the rule of law, don't seem to mind the fact that they are in violation of international law. Nor does it bother them that the war was launched on insufficient and old -- very, very old --data. Nor does this church-going nation seem to think that the moral dictums they teach their children -- as in "thou shalt not lie," for instance, -- has anything whatsoever to do with politics and the standards we set for our politicians even when thousands and thousands of innocent people die because of it.

2. The unilateralism and militarism of the United States in this mis-directed war has evoked "broad and seething rejections from all corners of the globe." It is, they argue, only the first attempt of this new kind of United States to achieve US domination of the world.

Most ironic of all, they maintain, is the fact that because of US militarism, the world is much less safe than it ever was before the US launched its new doctrine of preemption. There is "unprecedented political unrest to the Middle East," they argue. And, most ironic of all, this campaign to "make the world safe for democracy" is now being used as an excuse for whatever political goals other authoritarian governments may have-as in the amendment of the Peace Constitution and the military rearmament of Japan.

They maintain that in its anger over 9/11, the United States has simply unleashed another arms race all around a world that is now using the fear of "terrorism" to justify it.

[skylarmae]

1. What are we going to do about the press?

Somethings got to give. I'm more worried every day about what's going on. The more I understand how ignorant, blinded and manipulated I've been, I am totally embarrassed at myself!

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Thank you, thank you, thank you

for this fabulous link! I immediately shared it with a Catholic repuke on another board I have been debating for months now. She thinks * is a god. I think she has already nominated him for sainthood.

:yourock:

[Malva Zebrina]

3. It is an interesting article

What else besides arrogance or ignorance can possibly account for the fact that as a nation these things don't seem to bother us at all?

Seems a reflective question. Perhaps, besides arrogance and ignorance, it is the lack of reflection that accounts for it. Perhaps it is plain and simple greed, or the quest for more and more, when what one has is enough. But it seems, one never has enough because there is always the titillation or the allure of having more because that will make one happy or happier. If that is the case, we have a great multitude of unhappy people in this country.

BTW, what does the OSB mean after the author's name?

[seventhson]

4. I do not know, but if you check the website it might be explained

Order of the Sisters of ???

Benedictines maybe???