Posted on 08/13/2014 9:57:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Vatican is increasingly indicating support for military action in Iraq to protect Christians and other religious minorities from persecution by brutal Islamic jihadists.
As the world grapples with how to combat the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS), the Vatican released a letter Wednesday in which Pope Francis urges the international community “to take action to end the humanitarian tragedy now underway.”
The Pope’s entreaty came before U.S. defence officials revealed late Wednesday that air strikes and the work of Kurdish fighters had allowed many of the thousands of Yazidis trapped on Mount Sinjar to escape....
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I am a Papist. Born and bread. However, The fact is that Saddam Hussein killed millions of his own people attacked two neighbors, killing hundreds of thousands more yet it was not a moral war as far as the Vatican was concerned in order to remove him. What has changed in Iraq? ISIS is more open in its’ brutality, but are they any more brutal?
Leaders like Saddam are par for the course in the Arab World.
The world was better off when the Ottomans kept the Arabs in line....Some tribes just aren’t good at the self-rule thing.
The Pope is a Jesuit. The Jesuits are known as God’s soldiers. Maybe this Pope is ready to fight to defend Christianity.
Maybe the pope should call for military intervention to stop muslims. In whatever hole we find them. Then we might get somewhere, otherwise we are just reacting to the fruit of the tree of islam. Uproot it, and burn it to ash, so that nothing remains.
All they have to do is stall a little longer and the Christians will all be dead. Problem solved. That’s what it looks like they are doing anyway.
Will the Pope be sending the Swiss Guard to Iraq or will he be Vatican be raising an army?
Ditto for Quaddaffi
The ARab world recognizes only dictatorship or chaos, nothing in between
If we had not been involved in Gulf War One, then Saddam right now would be slaughtering jihadis, having defeated Iran with his oil money and would be threatening Saudi Arabia, the birthplace and source of jihadi teaching
Gulf War one lead to 9/11 and to the Islamic state -- GW was a mistake
He seems to be really wishy-washy with his statements about Israel not protecting itself from the terrorists.
What shall we name this Crusade ?
The Crusades: This time, we’ll do it right!
The Pope is a Jesuit. The Jesuits are known as the liberals of today’s Church. Maybe this Pope is ready to fight the stereotype and defend Christianity.
“What has changed in Iraq?”
One of the points necessary for a “Just War” is that it will not cause more harm than it will end. Has Iraq experienced less harm or more harm since we invaded in 2003? Quite frankly things are much worse there than under Hussein. Hussein was boxed in in 2003 and could only hurt his own people and he was not nearly as bad in that regard as ISIS is.
“ISIS is more open in its’ brutality, but are they any more brutal?”
Yes. Hussein never really targeted entire peoples merely because of who they were. As long as people cooperated with him he didn’t bother them.
The Pope needs to spend some Vatican money.
We need someone like St.Pius V who led the defeat of the Moslems at Lepanto in 1571.Without Pius V the Moslems likely would have conquered Western Europe.The more things change...
He’ll only do that when he boldly speaks Traditional Catholic Truth about Islam. That hasn’t been done for over 50 years now.
Nah, maybe Francis should just invite the Muslim Imam to the Vatican for some more “peace prayers”.
Crusades 2.0 ping...
Jim from C-Town:
that was in essence a civil war. There are tons of inter-country battles going on over ethnic rivalries or religion. If history is a lesson, getting involved in a civil war of another country is never a good thing. The first Iraq War was legitimate as Saddam attacked another country and probably would not have stopped. This last war was FUBAR, never supported it, never thought it was a good idea.
What is going on now with ISIS is a cancer that is growing, they are not going to stop with taking parts of Syria and Iraq. They are already moving into parts of Lebanon and Jordan. Saddam was no different than the idiot in North Korea, who has killed many of his own people, yet nobody is calling for an invasion of North Korea.
Saddam was targeting individuals because of religion [Christians were never targeted for simply being Christian], he killed political rivals to his power. He was a brutal dictator yes, but no different than the other dictators over the years who repressed and killed political rivals, yet we did not invade those countries either, Cambodia in the early 70’s is another example.
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