5 years and counting...
Call me un -American if you want, but on this the 5 th anniversary of the beginning of the war in Iraq I am hard-pressed to feel any pride in my country. I look at this war as just another piece of evidence of how out of touch our leadership is with the pulse of the world. McCain's camp calling his current visit to the region as fact-finding and informational in nature, having nothing to do with the upcoming elections is laughable at best. How can we sleep at night with the blood of almost 4000 service men and women on our hands? How can we have a clear conscience that we went in the right direction on this while we become the most hated country in the world? How can we, as Christians, support a government that has made our faith synonymous with western capitalism and a fundamental, right-wing political agenda? I honestly don't know which I am finding harder to divulge these days, whether I am an American or a Christian . This from Sojourner's founder Jim Wallis on March...