[catpuppy]

One of the reasons I was against our war with Iraq, and still am, is because I agree with something very wise that John Quincy Adams said in 1821. Referring to America, Adams said of our country: “She goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy."

Yes Adams did say that. But eight years later he wrote of conflict between Islam and the West: (John Quincy Adams on the War We Are In)

Adams feared that Western statesmen failed to appreciate the Christian roots and context of liberalism. In America and increasingly in Europe, religious freedom had found fertile soil in the Christian notion that religion is primarily about belief and only secondarily about action. Hence, people could be left free to think whatever they wanted so long as they submitted peacefully to the laws. Islam is different; it is fundamentally about law, not about belief. The wish of Islam is that the whole world follow the Law of the Koran. Finding a genuine idea of toleration in a religion that is about law and wants to be universal would not be easy, Adams argued.

[CWOJackson]

This is the man some freepers are encouraging everyone to vote for instead of President Bush, the Conservative Party's so-called candidate for president.

[TheRIGHTChoice]

Very good post. That was a pleasure to read.

Corey