In the wake of the Union Army's defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run in August 1862, US president Abraham Lincoln paused to meditate about God's role in the war. The North lost some 14,000 men in the three-day battle, and so Lincoln had a great deal to ponder. Considering the loss, Lincoln wrote,... [ Read entire Post ]
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October 2004 Archives
October 28, 2004 at 4:46 PM
What Bush understands
October 22, 2004 at 4:33 PM
America's lessons from Lebanon
Tomorrow will mark the 21st anniversary of one of the most egregious failures in US military history. On October 23, 1983, a Syrian- and Iranian-backed Hizbullah terrorist drove a Mercedes truck laden with 180 kilograms of explosives into the US Marine barracks at Beirut International Airport. Three hundred and fifty US Marines lived in the... [ Read entire Post ]
October 14, 2004 at 6:10 PM
Sharon shows his cards
On Wednesday, Army Radio reported the contents of a secret Foreign Ministry report which forecast the state of Israel's relations with Europe over the next decade. The picture it painted was bleak. Israel, the report's author claims, will be increasingly castigated by EU governments as a racist apartheid state. In the sense that the leaked... [ Read entire Post ]
October 8, 2004 at 4:30 PM
Stay on offense
Monday The New York Times ran an op-ed by the PLO's lawyer, Michael Tarazi, under the headline "Two Peoples, One State." In the essay, Tarazi argued that the world must move beyond the "two-state" solution to the Palestinian conflict with Israel to a "one-state" solution that would end Israel's existence as a Jewish state. Since... [ Read entire Post ]
