TWO BRAVE MEN IN AFGHANISTAN - Just A Minute Radio for 100906

Well Good Day to you once again…

Our program today deals with a *very important* look at what’s happening on the war front.

It’s my very strong conviction we should get rid of this conflict in Afghanistan which started nearly a decade ago and which we seem to fool ourselves into not believing we’re in war by not *calling* it a war.

Folks, the Taliban or Al Qaida or whatever it goes by --- declared war on the United States and all we stand for on September 11, 2001 and we’ve been *erroneously* trying to “bring them to justice” ever since.

I keep hammering away at the concept words are the symbols we think with in order to select the correct words when we’re trying to communicate a concept. If you pick the wrong symbol, you’ll get the wrong result. That’s what happened when the unfortunate phrase, coughed up in a hurry from the White House speech office back on that September day in 2001.

“Bringing people to justice…” harks back to western movies and a time when sheriffs, marshals and vigilantes were the ‘justice’ west of the Mississippi. It’s referencing LAW ENFORCEMENT not WAR!... And From 9/11/01 we’ve been AT WAR not arresting people and charging them before a judge and having a trial and all the rest.

That’s been one of the biggest reasons we’ve gotten all tangled up with GitMo and repatriating people who were captured when we’re trying to ‘run down’ these criminals… and ‘bring ‘em to justice.’ Our JOB ONE is to win the war and to do that we have to eliminate… i.e. “kill the enemy” just like they declared war on us and started by killing 3000+ of our citizens plus another 4400 lives lost by our Armed Services in FIGHTING THIS CONTINUING WAR that continues to this day!

Well…OK… I’ll climb down off the Soap Box now… but can we agree to dispose of ‘bringing them to justice’ and just concentrate on WINNING THE WAR. And loving the peace. Today’s JUST A MINUTE shows some of the legal derailment we have to deal with when our brains are not on the same track as the locomotive!

Cordially IN HIM,

Jack

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TWO BRAVE MEN IN AFGHANISTAN

Just a Minute: -- The Saturday edition of the Wall Street Journal carries the story of two men in an Afghanistan sniper hot spot. One is a Navy Chaplain ministering to Marines – the other a Marine RP2 – equivalent of Sergeant – who carries the fire power and provides security.

Lt. Terry Moran, 48, Seattle, is a Seventh Day Adventist who preaches about Devine protection; and 25 year old Philip Chute brought up a devout Baptist from Canada, lived in Greenville, South Carolina became a US. Citizen in 2009 and professes Atheism. Lt. Moran as a Chaplain carries no weapon but a large Bible; Specialist Chute carries the firepower and books of British Atheist and evolutionary biologist Stephen Dawkins.

Just a week ago Chaplain Dale Goetz, 43, of White, South Dakota, and four other soldiers were killed near Kandahar – the first Army Chaplain killed since 15 Chaplains died in Vietnam.

There’s more going on these days than politics. Let’s renew and increase our prayers for God’s people and God’s peace.

<> I’m Jack Buttram. (END)

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