Plea for U.S. leaders II
by Clair Hochstetler, Goshen, Ind.
The ramp-up to an attack upon Iran by Bush, Cheney and their enablers in Congress and elsewhere continues unabated. That is becoming clear from mounting evidence by investigative journalists and analysts willing to break away from mainstream media reporting. They describe how an unprovoked U.S. attack on Iran would violate both U.S. and international law and lead to a series of events likely to cascade into World War III.
Such an attack would be immoral, unjust and lead to destruction that would spread to other countries. U.S. leaders did it before in Iraq.
Who and how are we deploying our spiritual resources for effective resistance, i.e. standing in the way of this hell-bent drive toward unfettered warfare? Is it not time to discuss what shape the modern Confessing Church movement, which Dietrich Bonhoeffer initiated during the Third Reich’s rise to power in Germany, is (or ought to be) taking?
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