Pastor John comments on the appalling lack of focus on “life” as it SHOULD be defined: that is, as an issue and a reality that is above and beyond national interests. The justifications we hear about how and why this war was “justified” are completely absent of considerations for the losses of life that are non-American. This is not , as Pastor Wright says, a “culture of life”. Life is the value which national interests have demoted down the list of priorities, and its been that way with empires for eons of human history. The United States is no different. Indeed, with modern technology, and media, and “Manufactured Consent” , the destruction and death unleashed is more horrendous than that of older more infamous despotic empires.
Here again is basically an admission that policy, not intelligence, drove the the Bush decision to invade Iraq. Intelligence was then shaped around the obvious “facts” and “history” to provide a public relations rationale for the war. This is exactly the same perspective as given by the British memo released last weekend.
I think what is most disturbing to me is that both the author of the article and Feith can only think in terms of the impact of the war on the United States. The decimation of Iraq and the Iraqi people does not even appear on the moral horizon. We mustn’t forget that the decimation of the Iraqi people continues. This is not the “Culture of Life” that John Paul II talked about, but rather, the “Culture of Death.”