No Resolution- Only Questions
In some reflection on the whole mess about the Iraq war, all I can come up with is that this is going to truly be another war where no one, absolutely no one, will be the winner. The controversy over the Iraq Study Group report shows that no matter what route we take, we will lose, the people of Iraq will lose, and the world will at best be a much sadder place than it was before we began.

The errors we have made in this war are far more challenging and ethically questionable than the ones made in Vietnam, partly because some of them are the same when we should have learned better.

Others are from the unmistakable fact that this part of the world is far, far, far more dangerous to world peace than Vietnam ever was. The health and safety of people from many neighboring countries are at risk, no matter what we do. An Israeli columnist, for example, says that the ISG's report leaves them open for a nuclear attack from Iran and ignores their safety. The Iraqi government says it questions the sovereignty of Iraq. And those are but the beginning.

We won't know until next year what the administration is going to do. But I am afraid that no matter what the decision someone will be left out in the cold or hurt or forgotten. We have started such a mess that it is hard to think that there can even be a way out or through it from this point that will allow the United States to show our compassion and strength.

May we pray this season of peace that a true way for peace can be found.