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WHY I AM STILL A PACIFIST

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I’ve been reading a very disturbing book, HITLER’S FURIES by Wendy Lower, which documents the hideous story of the NAZI Killing fields. What is most disturbing is how ordinary people became enlisted in the huge bureaucracy required to murder millions of Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals, and physically “inferior” persons. “Surely” they say, “war was justified to prevent such hideous violations of human rights. How can one be a pacifist under these circumstances?” This sermon, developed as a response to some people’s claim that President Obama was a Pacifist after he received the Nobel Peace Prize. I explain here why he was not.

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CIVIL WAR? NOT!

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The title is a bit misleading, deliberately. As we were observing the 150th anniversary of the beginning of America’s most costly war (at least 250,000 dead) I examine whether any war can be “civil” in the sense of respectful of one’s adversary. Write me directly if you would like to discuss this.

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THE PROPER USES OF NOSTALGA

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On the last day of 2008 I finished reading Ted Sorensen’s memoir, subtitled “A Life at the Edge of History.” Sorenson, now 80, then 24, joined the staff of John Kennedy in January 1953 when representative Kennedy became Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy. He quickly became Kennedy’s major speech writer and eventually counsel to the president. They were an odd couple, the Nebraska Unitarian and the Massachusetts Roman Catholic. Sorensen was accused by JFK’s enemies of actually writing JFK’s books and speeches. Soon after the president’s assassination the Kennedy family asked him to write the official biography. You saw him on TV. recently endorsing Barack Obama.

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