So, in Iraq, what evil was prevented that was large enough to justify 100,000+ deaths?
Than this: Mosaic Law has been superseded with a new Covenant of faith as established by Jesus.
Maybe we shouldn’t have gone into Iraq in the first place-but we were there and we needed to finish the job.
See, that’s just a rewording of your initial point, not a line of reasoning that got you there. You need to think “essay question” not “short answer” to these sorts of queries.
This contradicts the word of Jesus, FYI. Paul said the old law was superceded, but Jesus said it wasn’t. Who was right?
What exactly was the job?
What should I ask a Patriotic American Intellectual Conservative Christian, and should I capitalize his title?
OK, Curtis, I enjoy reading your posts, and I kick myself that I didn’t start sooner. I also see a lot of the 13 year old me in you, I’m also a Christian, patriotic (but to a different country), intellectual (but then I think all regular Dopers are, which is why I’m here) - not conservative though, have been left-of-centre for as far back as I can remember (and this is where I see the Bible calls us to be - socialists not right-wing) but this has got me frothing at the mouth and I must comment:
Wikipedia is not “Wiki” (or “the Wiki”) - “wiki” is a type of website (open to contribute) of which Wikipedia is an encyclopedia in the wiki style, hence the portmanteau name. There are hundreds of "wiki"s other than Wikipedia!!!
Oh man, do I feel better. Now, don’t slip up again or I shall be forced to really get mad. You don’t want to see me mad.
Hey, what kind of Doper would I be if I weren’t to nitpick about a grammar/spelling issue?
Much like your own involvement in this thread. Please attend and fully answer this one question.
Curtis, you’ve agreed that Smedley Butler, the much-decorated USMC general, was a patriotic American who was just, as you put it,“mistaken on some issues”. Now I certainly agree that anyone like yourself who claims to be an intellectual must question authority.
From 1898 on, Butler spent decades commanding units on the ground around the world in the service of, what he must have believed thru this period to be, legitimate American interests. I am sure you agree that he was not mistaken in this and accept him as a true authority on the subject, based on his intimate involvement and wide experience.
Thus, your opinion that he lapsed into error must somehow be based on his later assessment his own record as presented in War Is A Racket.
So Curtis, I question your authority as presumed in this OP and ask you to delineate on what issues this poor ultimately deluded man came to be so wrong.
Two will do.
You gotta keep up with the hipsters, youngsters, and the hippity-hoppity today.
Wikiin slang. Check out definitions 3,4, and 6.
The times, they is a-changin’.
I stand by my Righteous Outrage ™. defs 3 and 4 are in a verb sense, and Curtis wasn’t using it as a verb, but a noun. def 6 is … well, the less said about that rambling pile of nonsense that seems to propagate the web the better. The fact that the UD itself seems to be a wiki kind of proves my point.
Jesus could have meant it in a different manner when He said the Law would not superseded. He might have meant the spirit of the Law.
Keeping Iraq stable and not becoming an another Vietnam.
The Chinese intervention in 1927 happened after fighting between various Chinese factions in Shanghai and Nanjing where the American consulate was.
His served the American League Against War and Fascism which was actually a (Stalinist) Communist front organization.
What do you mean by, “Fascism which was actually a (Stalinist) Communist front organization”? Are you suggesting that the fascist regime in Nazi Germany was actually a Communist front? How then do you explain World War II, in which a large number of the populations of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union died while attempting to destroy the other?
No! The organization name was the American League Against War and Fascism.
OK. Sorry about that.
Cite for this? (Both him serving it and the fact that it was a Stalinist front?)
And the United States of America isn’t “the States” or “America”, as perhaps dozens of people around the world might complain.
Context-specific cues, people. Jeez.
It’s true, and not exactly a shocker. Nearly all the people ideologically opposed to fascism in the early going were communist sympathizers, and the ALWF was an arm of the Communist Party of the United States.
It wasn’t so much that they were into communism as they were against fascism, and nobody else but the Soviets seemed to care about fighting it.
Ah, thanks.