If you keep doing what you’re doing, you keep getting what you’re getting

Insurgency in Fallujah expected to worsen: US commander

Insurgent attacks in the Iraqi city of Fallujah are expected to rise over the next few months, a US commander said, but vowed that rebels will not be allowed to regain control of their former bastion.

Onward Christian soldiers

From Body & Soul

Make what you will of this, but I found the numbers kind of interesting:

Only fourteen percent of Americans are evangelical Christians.

Forty percent of active duty American military personnel are evangelicals.

Sixty percent of military chaplains are evangelicals.

All if which raises a lot of questions. Why are evangelicals — especially clergy — disproportionately drawn to the military?  And what effect does it have when our army is not just Christian, but disproportionately made up of Christians who regard proselytizing as a core value of their faith?

And how do they react in a foriegn country or war zone faced by those of differing faiths? Especially considering they tend to be True Believers.

Sue says, perhaps we’re all going to have to kill each other

Hiroshima, Japan — The A-bomb survivors knew their peace movement was in trouble when they were banned by an Atlanta school board and heckled by hostile Americans at a peace march in Washington.

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Britain, France and Germany are to promise Iran that it will not face military attack if it abandons enriching uranium, the key to building a nuclear bomb, a senior Iranian official said yesterday.

The EU and the United States suspect Iran’s atomic programme is a front for efforts to create a bomb. Tehran insists it only wants nuclear power for electricity.

They have no proof that Iran is making weapons. Yet, belligerently, the West is saying “do as we order or we will attack.” Not that they care much about proof, that’s not the point. There’s been lots of rumbles and leaks about how Bush has been planning to invade Iran for quite some time now.

Such imperialist delusions haven’t played out well in Iraq, have they? Yet here they go again, about to invade another country, based on lies and fabrications.

Sue thinks Europe is doing this because they want to avoid war in Iran, since they would be damaged far more from the blowback than the US. Yet, how do you prevent war by threatening to go to war?

Me, I think the ruling class of the West is moving in lockstep against Iran, with invasion a foregone conclusion. The citizens of these countries don’t want war. The rulers do.

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Global warming is pumping up the destructive power of hurricanes and typhoons, a new study suggests.

The number of hurricanes is staying constant at about 90 a year, yet the ferocity is increasing. And it’s due to global warming.

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