Nixon had a Quaker background and Kennedy was Catholic but Viet Nam, for example, was neither A Quaker or Catholic war. So the truth of the below......well, views may vary. I don't do policy analysis's for the U.S. government.
“However; we must consider that the current American (Protestant) policy in the Balkans and in the Middle East is directly resulting in the extermination of the native Catholics such as the Chaldeans in Iraq and the Copts in Egypt”.
“Not justification, just pointing out that the Protestants were hardly sweetness and light. Cotton Mather was a case in point.”
Quite so but not my contention otherwise.
“The Catholic Encyclopedia is not a bad source, but not authoritative. Try the Vatican.va website instead.”
But it does have the stamp of approval of Catholic authority and agrees with Catholic authority so would the Vatican web site say something contrary?
You may wish to find out why. The early US had state churches in most of the colonies. But that never stopped the US from having antireligious activities. The 1800s and early to mid 1900s saw extravagent antiCatholicism, for instance. But the point is that the results of whatever policy of the last 30 years the US has pursued, has been to decimate the Catholic population of the Middle East. And we see no evidence of concern. Have you?
Nixon had a Quaker background and Kennedy was Catholic but Viet Nam, for example, was neither A Quaker or Catholic war. So the truth of the below......well, views may vary. I don't do policy analysis's for the U.S. government.
Nixon was a profoundly bigoted and obnoxious individual, doing nothing to show the ideals of the Quakers. Eisenhower got us involved in Vietnam after the French withdrew. It is true that Kennedy sent the first large numbers of soldiers, but held back from full scale war. It was Johnson that escalated it to full on warfare. So I do not consider the Vietnam war to be tagged religiously - it was a reaction to Communist agressions.
But it does have the stamp of approval of Catholic authority and agrees with Catholic authority so would the Vatican web site say something contrary?
It does not have full authority - the stamp is of a local bishop which says that he can find nothing wrong with it. As I said, I find it useful but not completely authoritative. Many of the articles are a century old and the site is a private one, not a Church one.