Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: MONDAY, July 5, 1993 TAG: 9307070421
SECTION: EDITORIAL PAGE: A-6 EDITION: METRO
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The nation has made a grave, international political error. If we believe in the New World Order as George Bush and Bill Clinton rave about, why didn't we go before the United Nations and present the case before the world? Let them decide the force needed.
How can Bush and Clinton announce to the world after church services with political smiles and glee: We did it and we're glad we did. This not only violated the Ten Commandments and Christ's teachings, but is a mockery of the Christian faith throughout the world.
In quoting your last paragraph: "Let's simply say that America did what we had to. It's OK, if regrettable, that we killed some people in the process. But this was a show of grim determination, not an occasion for chestbeating celebration."
Maybe editorialists see it that way, but I do not. We are in a holy war now, and a mother of all holy wars.
I remember standing on the deck of the U.S.S. Enterprise and watching the U.S.S. Franklin blow up in 1945 - 27 explosions, 1,000 dead and 1,000 more injured. They took a kamakaze hit. This was a religious sect of the Japanese. This was a holy war, too.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is going to be a horrible, global holy war - with no winner. GRANT A. HALLOCK CHECK
by CNB