I think there are profound questions over the merits of going to war in Iraq. Army War College Professor Codevilla writes [see http://claremont.org/publicati.....tail.asp]:
"During the decade that began on September 11, 2001, the U.S. government's combat operations have resulted in some 6,000 Americans killed and 30,000 crippled, caused hundreds of thousands of foreign casualties, and spent—depending on various estimates of direct and indirect costs—somewhere between 2 and 3 trillion dollars. But nothing our rulers did post-9/11 eliminated the threat from terrorists or made the world significantly less dangerous. Rather, ever-bigger government imposed unprecedented restrictions on the American people . . . ."
The professor fails to mention that our response to 3,000 dead on 9/11 led to at least 150,000 more deaths in Iraq. This 50 to 1 body bag multiplier is precisely what the Gospel tells us NOT to do. As a Christian who supported forceful regime change in Iraq, I am embarrassed and humbled by the results of what I advocated. In retrospect, the number one response to 9/11 should have been to convert Americans from oil to natural gas, and thereby cripple oil-funded terror. Believe it or not, your car can run reliably on US produced natural gas, and the switch requires no Americans to go to war.
