Christians are being persecuted, says former archbishop of Canterbury

[Ken Burch]

40. What do you want?...we can't relaunch the Crusades.

And the United States has no moral standing to change any other culture by force anyway. To even try to do so would automatically be reactionary. We never just do good things after an invasion and leave it at that. Our leaders always end up exacting a price.

Only the people in those cultures can legitimately change them. People from "the West" can support those people and encourage them in their work, but we can't impose those changes on a culture that doesn't want them. To do that is to guarantee that everyone within those cultures will resist us.

It's about boundaries, and avoiding self-righteous arrogance. And it's about recognizing what this country is and is NOT entitled to do in this world. If you cease to recognize that, if you buy into the "civilizing mission" bullshit, you cannot avoid ending up in Bush/Cheney territory, and once you've gone there...you no longer have any humanity.