SANCTUARY [must read article for every liberal (and conservative) you know]

ejectejecteject.com/ ^ | May 18,2005 | William Whittle

[HairOfTheDog]

What’s worse than crawling under your beloved house and seeing the foundations rotten with decades of termite damage?

NOT crawling under your beloved house and seeing the foundations rotten with decades of termite damage.

I’ve been away for a while, doing a little thinking. Usually, my thoughts for these past few years have started at home and then taken me to Iraq, and the war. Lately, though, I have been thinking about Iraq, and my thoughts turn more and more to home.

I started thinking along these lines six months ago, after a young Marine shot and killed a wounded Iraqi in a mosque in Fallujah

The ideas behind this little adventure we are about to embark upon have changed enormously since then. I have, quite frankly, been at a loss to know how to put so many wide-ranging snapshots together into this montage, this image, this idea of Sanctuary that I think holds the key to many of the problems we face today.

Stay with me -- our first stop is not our destination, but it is a necessary one. So let me first take you on that original journey, and show you how events in Iraq can show us how to fight and win a much wider and deeper conflict, right here at home.

[HairOfTheDog]

Uh oh - it looks like he forgot to pay the bill. I hope he gets it back up and running soon.

You can help with his cash flow by buying his book :~D

Amazon.com: Books: Silent America: Essays from a Democracy at War

[Desert_Girl]

Thanks. I think I will go to the bookstore tomorrow.

[little jeremiah]

Got it! Thanks.