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sorry to bring this up again, but, i have to.

Did you see this headline in that Boston Globe essay by Andrew J. Bacevich of Boston University?

Evangelical foreign policy is over

This wasn’t a news story, but it’s still worth mentioning.

So what, pray tell, would an “evangelical” foreign policy be? If the word is given it’s traditional meaning, it would be a foreign policy that is pro-free speech and religious liberty, the kind of foreign policy that is, well, pro-evangelism or, to use the word Catholics prefer, evangelization. You wouldn’t have to be an evangelical Protestant to back this policy, you’d only need to back the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

But wait, that isn’t what this article is all about. Here’s the top of the essay:

WITH Barack Obama’s election to the presidency, the evangelical moment in US foreign policy has come to an end. The United States remains a nation of believers, with Christianity the tradition to which most Americans adhere. Yet the religious sensibility informing American statecraft will no longer find expression in an urge to launch crusades against evil-doers.

Like our current president, Obama is a professed Christian. Yet whereas George W. Bush once identified Jesus Christ himself as his favorite philosopher, the president-elect is an admirer of Reinhold Niebuhr, the renowned Protestant theologian.

Faced with difficult problems, conservative evangelicals ask WWJD: What would Jesus do? We are now entering an era in which the occupant of the Oval Office will consider a different question: What would Reinhold do?

So this foreign policy flows out of what this professor believes are the doctrines of evangelicalism? Would evangelicals in Africa, Asia or Latin America agree with that?

And while we are at it, there were many evangelicals (ditto for Catholics, like Peggy Noonan) who grew more and more disturbed that George W. Bush’s foreign policy was based on the belief that the actions of America could somehow eliminate the presence of evil in our world. Say what? That’s a conservative Christian view of what mankind can accomplish in this fallen, sinful world?

No way. In fact, the adjective that critics — including many evangelicals — began to attach to Bush’s view was “Wilsonian.”

What conservatives began to say was that Bush seemed to have an overly lofty view of his own mission, that he was pursuing the kind of logic that seemed rooted in a belief in relentless human progress, that the world was getting better and better and better. Might Bush say that there would be a “Christian Century” ahead? In other words, “Wilsonian” is not a conservative word.

Bacevich goes on to make a number of interesting and valid points, none of which require the use of the word “evangelical.” There is even this:

At the root of Niebuhr’s thinking lies an appreciation of original sin, which he views as indelible and omnipresent. In a fallen world, power is necessary, otherwise we lie open to the assaults of the predatory. Yet since we too number among the fallen, our own professions of innocence and altruism are necessarily suspect. Power, wrote Niebuhr, “cannot be wielded without guilt, since it is never transcendent over interest.” Therefore, any nation wielding great power but lacking self-awareness — never an American strong suit — poses an imminent risk not only to others but to itself.

Here lies the statesman’s dilemma: You’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t. To refrain from resisting evil for fear of violating God’s laws is irresponsible. Yet for the powerful to pretend to interpret God’s will qualifies as presumptuous. To avert evil, action is imperative; so too is self-restraint. Even worthy causes pursued blindly yield morally problematic results.

so an “evangelical” foreign policy is a person that ignores the reality of “original sin” and its impact on the actions of people trying to do good in a fallen smashing?

Wait, there’s more.

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By Debbie Schlussel

An extremist Muslim gets his laptop checked when he returns here from who knows where. Yes, Customs agents are actually trying to do their job.

It’s hardly news and certainly not front page news. But it’s both here in Detroit because anytime a Muslim gets a papercut or sneezes, we have to hear about how they are victims of something or another–usually something for which we’re to blame.

Such is the case with Imam Mohammed Ali Elahi, a Shi’ite Muslim cleric in Dearbornistan Heights. Today, the fact that Customs and Border Protection officials in Detroit didn’t succumb to the usual PC and checked his laptop, is FRONT PAGE NEWS in the Detroit Newsistan.

Making a Muslim go through these things–things we all must go through because of Muslims who attacked our country and murdered Americans–is a no-no. Especially when a Muslim has to wait–in this case, a whole 20 minutes.

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What’s not mentioned–of course!–is:

* that Elahi is an Iranian; that he worked for Ayatollah Khomeini as the spiritual leader of his Navy;

* that he’s close buddies with and frequently visits, Hezbollah spiritual leader Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah–the man who issued the order to blow up our Marines and embassy in Beirut;

* that he was sent here by the Government of Iran and Hezbollah to radicalize Detroit’s Shi’ite community–and that those are the two parties believed to have funded his ornate and lavishly appointed mosque;

* that he repeatedly visits Iran and tries to hide it;

* that he lied on his applications for visas, a green card, and U.S. citizenship and didn’t disclose these things;

* that his mosque is or has been the place of worship for Hezbollah financier Talal Chahine, convicted honor murderer Khalil Chahine, and several indicted and convicted Hezbollah operatives for charges including bank fraud, mortgage fraud, tax evasion, real estate fraud, credit card fraud, etc., etc., ad naseam;

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* that more than one of his congregants has been detected with explosive material on their bodies when they returned to America through the Canadian border;

* that at least one of his congregants has been caught with Hezbollah recruitment videos, videos of himself at a Hezbollah training camp, and photos of himself burning the American flag;

* that he has repeatedly defended Hezbollah, HAMAS, terrorism, and homicide bombings in his regular anti-Semitic column in the Detroit Newsistan.

Yes, who cares about these things? Certainly not fabricator/”reporter” Gregg Krupa, who is in bed with Islamists and who many believe is on the take. These unimportant facts about Elahi have no place in an article about how this poor, religious man had his laptop searched. They’re not important security considerations, and we should be more concerned that we make sure we do not check the laptops of anyone who happens to worship Mohammed. It’s simply not nice. And we need to show them how nice America is.

Expect lots of that “making nice-nice” from President Obama.

And that’s today’s edition of . . .

Your Day in Islamic Grievance Theater.

The Waaaaah-mbulance is on its way to pick them up.

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in a tough interview the bbc’s richard galpin asked lord buy Levaquin mandelson four times if he had discussed cutting tariffs with oleg deripaska. mandy tried using the same tender-hearted of retail lines that he bluffed with sophie raworth; “i’m not distracted by media squalls, sensationalist headlines… there was no conflict buy Stromectol of interest, no impropriety”. we know, as trevor kavanagh reminds us, that mandelson is a proven liar, notwithstanding he is not an idiot. he no doubt has heard the rumours of tapes and boasts by oligarchs that they have western politicians in their pocket. so perhaps the explanation for his reticence in answering the question, and uncharacteristic loathing to risking a lie to deny always discussing tariff cuts worth billions to deripaska, is the fear that he discretion be contradicted.paul waugh reckons “the only sensible conclusion to draw is that mandelson did undeniably converse about the tariffs.” he is determinedly right.

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