Has democracy and freedom really arrived in Iraq with its occupation by USA troops? The sad answer is no.......and the evidence is there for all to see. Derrick Jackson's Op-Ed highlights just what is so wrong in Losing hearts and minds.
It is absurd to try to counter this kind of abuse with junk email photographs of soldiers petting stray kittens.
Questions, hot questions in Denver, Colorado today.....So what happens when you tell the truth about the religious intolerance and abuse being perpetrated by fundamentalist Christians in the Air Force? You get terminated.
It is time for the mainline Protestants and the Roman Catholics and the other religions/spiritualities such as Buddhism, to step up and send more chaplains into the military so that there is better representation of all faiths and beliefs.
Otherwise we are going to continue getting this blind faith, aggressive, dangerous and abusive combination of military violence backed by extremist Christian religion. The U.S.A. is not served well by producing this kind of dangerous person from its military academies. Despite recent movies, the religious crusades of medieval times (even if now cloaked in the garb of "democracy and freedom") are not something to be lauded or promoted.
With an eye cast to the African continent, in Kenya, once again we see the effects of trying to legislate women's control over their bodies and restricitng their right do make their own choices.
Kenyan Women Take Risks with Backstreet Abortions
The Bush Administration won't give funding to reproductive clinics/services in other countries that offer information about or perform abortions - inflicting its patriarchal dogmatic religious views on them. The Roman catholic Church is busy doing the same.
But does either entity really care that women are therefore dying becaues of their policies and lack of care?
One also wonders how much they care in light of it being poor African women who are dying.
