We'll only succeed with Muslims if we start acting like Christians.

[Rageneau]

I hear various plans as to how the U.S. should leave Iraq, or should deal with insurgents. But the one thing I NEVER hear is that our first priority should be to attend to the dire, immediate needs of the Iraqi people. Now. Today.

We have destroyed their country, killed hundreds of thousands of their people and maimed many more. Today, this formerly modern nation is without A/C and running water in relentless 120 degree heat. Imagine living in the center of a dusty desert with no air conditioning and no cool, fresh water, day after dirty day, for YEARS!! And we stand by and let it go on.

The Iraqis are also without jobs, without civic services, without hospitals, and, most of all, without peace and safety. They are even without the hope that things might get better any time soon.

That is all OUR fault -- the fault of the United States of America and every citizen of it. If we are Christians -- or even humanists -- we have an obligation to make things right for the people of Iraq, or at least to try.

The self-serving point-of-view is that we should get out of Iraq as fast as possible and wash our hands of it. I agree that the armed forces should be removed. But we cannot, should not, wash our hands of the mess -- the human catastrophe -- we have made.

If we are really a Christian nation, we should show some Christianity to those poor Muslims. And not in Iraq alone, either.

[PDJane]

1. Thank you.

It's time for the US to pay the butcher's bill there, and in Afghanistan, and in the Balkans......and in Vietnam.

It's also time to abolish advanced weaponry until we can make sure the planet can live through it.

[greyl]

2. Oh, jebus.

We are not a Christian nation, firstly.
Second, good luck finding 3 people who agree on what the hell it means to be Christian.

[Rageneau]

3. Try" Love your neighbor as you love yourself."

I'm not saying all Christians obey that "commandment," but I'm certain that every Christian is supposed to.

[AnotherGreenWorld]

5. The problem is there are other parts of the Bible

that contradict that. Christians in the US find those parts more appealing.

[RC]

4. The real problem is too many people ARE acting like Christians.

Witness all the death and destruction in their gods name. Why can't they live up to the teachings of the guy their religion is named after?