An excellent article from America magazine about the responsibility to protect in relation to the tragedy in Myanmar, and while this is relatively new ground in modern international relations; it has long been part of Catholic social teaching.
At the creation, the great cry of the first murderer Cain, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” was answered clearly and affirmatively by God, as Cain was banished for the killing of his brother Abel.
This is why we are in Iraq, though the initial reasoning centered around the protection of ourselves from future terrorist attacks that might come armed with nuclear or biochemical weapons supplied by the tyrant; it soon become clear that there were no weapons to disburse but the oppressive yoke our intervention removed from the neck of the Iraqi people will long justify this war.
In the Wall Street Journal Fouad Ajami reminds us that we went to war in Iraq to defend the innocent against the aggressor, that the aggressor is still there, that we have a lot of work left to do.
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"The sinner is at the very heart of Christianity. Nobody is so competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. Nobody, except the saint." Charles Peguy (1873-1914)
About
- David H. Lukenbill
- I am a California native, married, we have one daughter and live close to the American River with two cats and all the wild critters we can feed. I am a management consultant to nonprofit organizations and have an Associates of Arts degree in Administration of Justice from Sacramento City College, a Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Behavior from the University of San Francisco and a Master of Public Administration degree, also from the University of San Francisco.