Friday, February 4, 2005
Support Our Snipers?
Apparently the College Republicans at Marquette have fully embraced the notion of the Iraq invasion as a just war.
Rob
UPDATE: Reader Conor Dugan insists that my post "begs the further question: What should our stance be toward our soldiers in this war? If this is an unjust war -- and I must admit I've never been fully satisfied of its justice (nor incidentally fully convinced of its injustice) -- what should our posture be towards our troops?"
For the record, I agree that we must support our troops fully. What I object to is the seemingly celebratory stance toward the human suffering caused by war. (In exchange for a donation to buy equipment for American snipers, the Marquette College Republicans were handing out bracelets that read, "One Shot One Kill No Remorse I decide.") Alas, Marquette's decision that these bracelets are not consistent with the school's mission is dismissed by at least one commentator as emanating more from political correctness than from the school's Catholic identity.
https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2005/02/support_our_sni.html