What "complexity"? Liberals always mock the clarity of right and wrong. For them everything is complex, shades of gray--except where the US is concerned, in which case we're always wrong--no shade then except black.
The Iraqis suffered horrific evil for thirty years. Saddan violated a UN truce for twelve. France and Russia and Germany--supported by the Pope--would have been content to spend another twelve chasing after moonbeams while they cynically raked-in billions through sweetheart deals with Saddam. Meanwhile people were being shoved alive into giant shredders. Kids were tortured before their parents, wives raped before their husbands.
And while we're at it, what is the "complexity" behind the Pope's failure to condemn the despotism of Castro, do you suppose? The Cuban dictator is going around giving life sentences to librarians for speaking against the government--not ten, twenty years, mind you, but LIFE. He is executing people for the crime of wanting to leave the giant prison of which he is the warden forever. What gives Castro his legitimacy except brute force? Why is the Pope not outraged, why doesn't he support his own Vatican agency which calls for him to condemn Castro--tapping the tyrant on the wrist in a weakly worded letter?
"tapping the tyrant on the wrist in a weakly worded letter" should read "INSTEAD OF tapping the tyrant, etc."
And I guess Eugenion Pacelli should have come out of the Vatican to meet the Nazis, guns blazing, huh? You remind me of armchair quarterbacks who just KNOW that if they were the coach, their team would have prevailed. Never mind the fact that if the armchair quarterback was capable -- or even RIGHT -- he'd be the one on the sidelines w/ the Motorola headphones on.
What "complexity"?
The complexity that maybe the Pope had in mind a peaceful plan that might have been able to effect a solution without resorting to war that would have resulted in the deaths of innocents. You dont' have much faith in God, but the Pope does.
France and Russia and Germany--supported by the Pope--
Direct me to the quotes of the Pope coming out and saying how great he thought Russia and France are for their position on the Iraq war. Or are you meaning to say that the Pope, like France and Russia, were opposed to war? There's a difference you know.
Why is the Pope not outraged, why doesn't he support his own Vatican agency which calls for him to condemn Castro--tapping the tyrant on the wrist in a weakly worded letter?
For one thing, you and I do not know how the Pope truly feels about Castro -- we're not privvy to his thoughts. We're not even privvy to private conversations of the Pope. The irony in all of this is that using your line of reasoning, St. Paul should have been decapitated while he was still Saul, thus depriving us of the great evangelist, apostle, and tool of the Holy Spirit in authoring Scripture. But miracle of miracles, God converted him to Christ. Oh, but miracles don't really happen anymore, right? God's power to convert the heart has a 12-year expiration date.