A group of lefty peace activists think feel that military action against the brutal, genocidal head-choppers of ISIS is icky, they think savage Mohammedans just need some hugs and understanding.
“U.S. military action is not the answer,” they claim, sounding a pacifist note common among left-leaning Christians. “We believe that the way to address the crisis is through long-term investments in supporting inclusive governance and diplomacy, nonviolent resistance, sustainable development, and community-level peace and reconciliation processes.”
I suggest the whole lot of these hippie-dips be sent to Mosul to begin immediately on their “community-level peace and reconciliation processes.”
I exhort the “Christian left” to get off its piety dance floor and “reach out” to the radical Islamists and “show them the way” while swiveling back and forth in order to keep the other cheek open.
Talk is cheap. Their “mission” is to go into the belly of the beast. Sort of like a medical missionary in ebola-ville.
Meanwhile, I would posit that it is not possible to be a modern liberal and a true Christian. Christian-lite turning Christ into a socialist, maybe, but not a Christian. In other words, some socialists are using the “opium of the people” to promote the “higher order” of socialism.
So, let the leftist Christians dialogue and fraternize among the radical Islamists and spread goodwill, joy and a positive alternative to jihad and the caliphate. I stand ready to be dumb-struck astounded by their success.
I believe there is a magic tree in my yard that grows $100 bills.
Is that how it works? Just believe and it is reality?
Left leaning Christians naivity is your name-stupidity is your reality.
I second the motion that they should go and do their mission. I was ready to start a fund to send them, but then I second thoughts. Why should I; they’re leftists. What I can do is start a petition to the White House to create a fund to send those pacifists, that should appeal to lead from behind Obama. However, they’re supposedly christian, so let their left leaning churches finance their journey, (and funeral).
I, for one, look forward to reading about them in the obituary section.
How about if we send 50 million liberal Democrats over to the Mideast. Two good things would come of it: we would have permanent conservative governance in the US, and two we would end socialism as we know it.
I contend that their “solution” has ALREADY been tried with the Islamic world.
For the past five and a half years by this Administration.
And that “solution” is exactly WHY we have the problem we are facing today.
As usual, with the left, in ANY form, if their methods don’t work, its only because you haven’t done enough of it.
Honestly we don’t need to destroy them, we just need to stop giving them 1st world things. Keep them out of western nations and they have no ability to harm us. We most certainly should not attack those that are able to keep them from being bad like Saddam, Syria’s president, Mubarak.
There is good news that the IRA is sending Muslims packing, no ignoring 1400 child rapes in a single town like the Brits did.
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2014/08/muslims-begin-to-flee.html
How about getting some training in by “talking things out” with the gangs in Chicago or east LA? That’ll get them ready to face ISIS.
Obama is sending more soldiers to Iraq. I hope they are liberal Democrat soldiers. I can’t believe Obama withdrew them and now have to send them back. What a waste of lives.
“US military intervention, coupled with inadequate social and reconciliation programs” are to blame for Islamic terrorism. Just as the Versailles Treaty was to blame for the Holocaust and WWII.
Contemporary pacifists are worse than the appeasers in the 1930’s. At least Neville Chamberlain did not have his own example from which to learn.
I don’t know what planet the Justpeace people live on, but it sure isn’t the third one from the sun in this solar system. And it isn’t one that has any intelligent life on it.
there is no peace movement, there never was a peace movement, only a pro-communist movement. i refer you the glorious history of the movement that in 1940 was protesting the “imperialistic” war againist hitler. if we really want to live in a peaceful world what we need isn’t an anti-war movement, we need an anti-revolution movement. there is a reason why wars are hell but revolutions are glorious.