Two thoughts:

1) Hugh Hewitt read an article from an Italian lady. She discussed having lived through World War II and being in the Italian resistance. She talked about the many American and other lives that were lost in freeing Italy from Mussolini. She talked about being a war correspondent and how much she abhors guns and war. But she talked about how necessary this war with Iraq is. I was unable to hear the end of the article and I did not catch her name, but I will try to find out and link to it.


Contrast that with:

2) Michael Medved interviewed this 27 year old girl who is trying to organize a group of people to go to Iraq to act as human shields. She attended college at an exclusive private college. She has probably been pampered all her life. Suddenly she has this epiphany that she can do some good in the world by going to Iraq to save lives by laying down and waiting for a bomb to drop on her. Toward the end of the interview it became clear that she probably won't ever make it to Iraq. At one point she said something anti-war/violence and in the same breath talked about how we saved the world from Hitler, Mussolini and Hirihito (sp?).

Two viewpoints. One experienced in oppression, war, death, and violence but sees the need for conflict with Iraq. The other only experienced in editing and trying to find some cause worth living or dying for. I would rather follow the woman who knows what is important than the one who is trying to find it.

In today's society, young people have nothing to believe in. They have no cause to follow. Religion has been meticulously cleansed from their lives. They have no foundation and it is interesting to see what they grasp at in their need for a moral/spiritual base. People think that my choice to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ are foolish and outdated. Even if these teachings were nothing more than fables (not that I doubt them for a minute) wouldn't it be better than taking up the cause of lying in front of a bomb to protect a dictator who has murdered tens of thousands of his own people, which people want him killed so they can have some freedom and liberty?