The Joy of the Truth » election http://www.fromtheabbey.com/Study/blog Increasing Catholic literacy & making Catholics think. Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:20:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 What’s the Best Direction for Iraq? http://www.fromtheabbey.com/Study/blog/whats-the-best-direction-for-iraq/ http://www.fromtheabbey.com/Study/blog/whats-the-best-direction-for-iraq/#comments Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:00:18 +0000 Jeffrey S. Arrowood, MTS http://www.fromtheabbey.com/Study/blog/?p=378 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Many Catholics support Barack Obama because he has promised to put a timeline on troop withdrawal from Iraq. Election propaganda from both sides aside, Catholics should take some time to ask what is truly best for Iraq at this point in time. By removing Saddam Hussein America created a power vacuum. The ongoing war(s) in Iraq have been the result of that vacuum. If we pull out our troops now, will we leave Iraq in total chaos?

History should teach us a lesson. We pulled out of Laos and Korea during times of instability and the people suffered greatly. I do not know for certain how close the conditions in Iraq are to the conditions in these two countries during the respective military engagements, but the similarities are enough for us to be examining the connections.

Why do we want the war in Iraq to end? Are we considering what is truly best for the Iraqi people, or are we just sick of fighting? Are we perhaps being selfish because of the money being spent, the lives being disrupted and the lives being lost for the sake of the cause? Or are those who want to pull out of Iraq truly convinced that doing so would be best for Iraq?

I am not proposing an answer to the question of whether or not we should pull out. I am saying that it is time for reasoned dialogue, and that our decision has to be for the best of Iraq rather than for our own convenience. Like it or not, we now have a responsibility there and we should take it very seriously.

Since the election is tomorrow, I will make a statement about the presidential nominees. I have gotten some flack form Catholics who support Obama for stating that abortion is a more important issue than the war in Iraq. The fact is that whether you think the war in Iraq is just or unjust, there is room for doubt. If the war is just, then it is not evil. There is no room for doubt about the evil of abortion.

Barack Obama promised that his first act as president would be to sign the Freedom of Choice Act which would abolish all of the restrictions currently placed on abortion at the federal level and within all of the states. How much or how little the Republicans have done to abolish abortion is beside the point. A vote for Obama is a vote for this act.

Do you believe that abortion is a valid solution to social problems? Do you believe that abortion is infanticide? How you vote will answer these questions.
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