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A just war?
To the editor
Our nation is not strictly Christian. Nor was it intended to be. True, most of our people have Christian roots. But our forebears conceived our Republic on the premise that its citizens be free to worship God as they chose.
And so the great American experiment, unique on such a large scale, has produced the only truly pluralistic society in human history. From a Constitution based on JudeoChristian principles, such as the Golden Rule, has come a land dotted with mosques, synagogs, cathedrals, and temples of the Orient, all the way to the Amish who gather for worship in private homes. No person from a monolithic mindset would ever understand that such a nation could live in harmony.
One East European observer remarked after the quiet revolution of 1989, “the Americans didn’t seize power, they didn’t take anyone’s territory; all they wanted was the same freedom for us that they enjoyed.” We Americans have won our freedom by fighting in wars. Along the way we have finely tuned the art. We turn the other cheek only so long.
Freedom survives only if we are willing to fight and die for it. We believe in tolerance and compromise and peace; but we expect the same in return. One thing we cannot tolerate is intolerance. In a broken world of sinful humans war is sometimes necessary.
For example, when an ambitious
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