Re: [asa] AIG -- Scientists! Give it up!

Wayne,

Thanks for your reply.

First, I'd like to apologise to the list for raising the political
temperature.

I should not have allowed myself to get so incensed by Dick's bragging.

The first point I should clarify is that I'm not necessarily against war.
The rights and wrongs of the Viet Nam conflict aside, I know that war is
sometimes a necessary evil. The point I would wish to make is that one's
involvement in it should not be something to brag about - you did what you
had to do because at the time you thought it was the right thing to do.

But spiritual warfare is another issue entirely. It MUST always be right to
resist the devil. I just found it a bit distasteful to go about loudly
proclaiming your patriotic involvement in a controversial war in support of
an issue of spiritual warfare. I have come to the conclusion that YEC must
be vigorously opposed, but not with incendiary language such as "stomp over
the charlatans", because in worldly war innocent people get stomped over as
well. That in itself doesn't make the war wrong - a necessary evil.

Iain

On 7/28/06, Dawsonzhu@aol.com <Dawsonzhu@aol.com> wrote:
>
>
> Iain:
>
> Not being from the US and having that picture eat into your
> mind in the same way, you probably cannot understand how
> explosive a reaction you might get.
>
> On the other hand,
>
> I really wish we could stop firing up the political
> machine. Some lists get into vicious squabbles about
> operating system arguments, others sports teams, .. here
> it's USA politics.
>
> I really wonder why in these disputes, those of us
> from the US, passively, actively, or not even born in
> that era, refuse to admit that Viet Nam was a terrible
> mistake.
>
> It was a mistake made equally by both Ds
> and Rs, supported by many who _honestly_ thought they
> were doing the right thing, and further fanned by the
> flames of international politics of the time. We can
> do nothing to change what has happened: nobody can.
> Both the communists and the capitalist are to blame for what
> happened there.
>
> The most we can do now (about the past) is pray and ask
> for wisdom, but before we can learn from our mistakes,
> we have to admit them. Why is that so hard to do?
>
> by Grace we proceed,
> Wayne
>

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