In the long nightmare that has been Iraq there have been more defeats than victories in the fight to bring a war that should never had been fought to an end.
But today there was a small but important victory that should be remembered. From The Washington Post:
A day after President Bush pleaded with Congress to give his Iraq policy one last chance, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee rebuffed him by approving a nonbinding resolution declaring his troop increase in Iraq to be against "the national interest."
That the war in Iraq has been “against the national interest” I have no doubt.
I also believe that this war is an affront to God who has called God’s people to be peacemakers (Matthew 5.9 NRSV) and to be the repairer of the breach, the restorer of streets to live in (Isaiah 58:12 NRSV). Instead we have been the instigators of violence and destruction. Lord have mercy.
