So long as it is appropriate for Christians to live in the benefits awarded to the victors is will be appropriate for Christians to be involved in the actions necessary.
You can define it that way if you like
well how else is this man whose wife is off indian descent(seminole) is too take this? surely your are aware of the unjust past that the americans did too the indians. ie take their land, the spaniards wiped the ocala tribe out. general custer would raid and kill indians(not the warriors) but the woman and children. i do understand that back then there wasnt a rule of law for war. but even then if you ponder that.. it was wrong.
if i'm going to die for my country and serve, its best that i really know what it stands for. i dont serve for the rich here btw, nor the politicians. i do it so that others dont have to be killed.
self-defense is one thing. one could take that anyway which one could. perhaps a clarification would be in order. which you didnt do.
list these 'just wars" of american history..
some werent so just after all if we are honest. i do think that some indian tribes were justifiable self-defense but didnt we not say its manifest destiny
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so then is that a christian thing that we should send our soldiers to do?
i was taught this in history class in grade school and also college.
for the record i may love my country, but i am not ignorant of her sins. i dont hide them if i know of them.
that was the point i made by that statement. to maintain qualility of life? so a war for oil alone is justifiable? while i see that is a possibility. but that would have to be a self-defense deal where we are drilling and one country is taking oil from us to be acceptable to me. i dont see the need to attack canada(second on the list were we get oil from).
