Dear Friends;
As part of my sermon on Sunday, August 28, I read the following letter, which I addressed To Whomever Is In Charge of Waging American Wars. Some of you asked to see a copy. Here is an excerpt. If you’d like to read the letter in its entirety, you can find it here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ben-daniel/to-whomever-is-in-charge-_b_11763034.html?
“Perhaps the problem is the so-called “military industrial complex”. Certainly war is a racket. Whenever there is a war a few people make a lot of money, and we live in a country where money tends to call the shots. But in our society, money only exerts power when politicians are corrupt, which may be the case in our country today, but my observation of current events leads me to believe that no one is in charge of the American War Machine. Everything we are doing seems to be reactive rather than proactive. If there is an intelligent design to our military strategy, I don’t know about it. As far as I can tell, we’re just killing civilians or we’re not using our influence to stop the slaughter of innocents, without any coherent military or political objectives.”
Very best,
Ben