Gripped by principle, four Christian peace activists traveled to Iraq to protest the war, up close and personal.Gripped by principle, four Christian peace activists traveled to Iraq to protest the war, up close and personal. For their trouble, they were abducted abducted Distal angulation of an extremity away from the midline of the body in a transverse plane and away from a sagittal plane passing through the proximal aspect of the foot or part, or away from some other specified reference point last November and held hostage by a gang of terrorist thugs. Tom Fox, the only American among the four, was tortured, handcuffed, and shot execution-style before having his corpse dumped in a trash heap. After that outrage, American soldiers received intelligence as to where the rest of the hostages were being held. They quickly staged a rescue mission, finding the three remaining pacifists in an abandoned building--saved by the very military force they had come to protest. We should celebrate these hostages' survival, even as we recognize the fatal naivete na·ive·té or na·ïve·té n. 1. The state or quality of being inexperienced or unsophisticated, especially in being artless, credulous, or uncritical. 2. An artless, credulous, or uncritical statement or act. of their pacifism pacifism, advocacy of opposition to war through individual or collective action against militarism. Although complete, enduring peace is the goal of all pacifism, the methods of achieving it differ. . There is no true peace to be made with dictators and terrorists; there is only appeasement appeasement Foreign policy of pacifying an aggrieved nation through negotiation in order to prevent war. The prime example is Britain's policy toward Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany in the 1930s. or victory. If we cannot muster the courage to fight the monsters of this world, our future promises nothing but death or enslavement--the peace of the dungeon Dungeon - Zork , or of the grave. |
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