{"id":23307,"date":"2011-05-10T02:33:24","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T06:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23307"},"modified":"2011-05-10T16:26:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T20:26:39","slug":"the-real-thinking-behind-rethink-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23307","title":{"rendered":"The real thinking behind Rethink Afghanistan."},"content":{"rendered":"

With the report from USA Today <\/a> that the group Rethink Afghanistan<\/a> was quick to jump on this. But I think that it should be noted that reasoning behind the group Rethink Afghanistan has nothing to do with Afghanistan. <\/p>\n

It should be interesting to know that is from a conversation<\/a> that started almost two years ago with Derrick Crowe<\/a>. <\/p>\n

U.S. Military Learning to Get Soldiers to Kill on Reflex, Drop Moral Reasoning<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sounds like something recently published<\/a>. But here is the the money shot. <\/p>\n

\nI reject one of your premises here: that firing a weapon could ever be a \u201cright choice,\u201d for any reason.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But then it goes deep into religion and ideals. But this is a case of ideals conflicting with reality<\/a>. Which in this case the field of play being Afghanistan. <\/p>\n

\nIf you want to dispute the idea that Christians should be willing to die rather than kill an insurgent, I feel you have to do one of the following:<\/p>\n

1) Challenge my interpretation of the Good Friday narrative and of the Gospel stories in general and what they tell us about Jesus. If you\u2019re not going to do that, I think you\u2019ll have to<\/p>\n

2a) Challenge whether Jesus intended his followers to base their ethics on his teachings and example, or<\/p>\n

2b) Assert that Jesus was wrong, and that Christians in Iraq and Afghanistan should not be following his teachings or example. (Maybe this is your intent?)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But it really comes down to the fact that this conflict of ideals will not allow for a military option to be viewed as successful<\/a> , regardless of if it is or not. That is the purpose of Rethink Afghanistan. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the report from USA Today that the group Rethink Afghanistan was quick to jump on … The real thinking behind Rethink Afghanistan.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}