WHAT an odd piece Ralph Peters has written. Wisely and generously -- how out of keeping with his general work is that!? -- he opposes religious revanchism, saying "Wherever opposing factions claim the same land for their gods, conflicts are insoluble without extremes of bloodshed. When we insist on chaining God to any patch of earth, we make Him as small as us." Is this the same Ralph Peters who is a rabid Zionist? Doesn't he see the conflict between opposing a Christian resurgence to retake Constantinople (the ultimate goal of Serbian attacks upon Bosnia and Kosovo) and Moslem aspirations to reconquer lost territory in Europe, while defending the right of Jews to retake Palestine? Don't Zionists 'make God as small as tiny Israel' when they kill for a piece of real estate?
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What's sauce for the goose really is sauce for the gander. If the United States throws all its power to the insane Jewish revanchism of Zionism, why NOT retake Constantinople and all the realms that once comprised Christendom? We have the power. Why should we, the world's greatest Christian power, use that power for Jewish revanchism but not for a great world crusade for Christianity? Why shouldn't WE take the CHRISTIAN Holy Land and either toss both the Jews and the Moslems out, or let them live in OUR Holy Land but not control it?
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If it would be mad to use our huge power to retake lost Christian territories, why on Earth are we using it to retake and hold for the Jews territory that our spiritual father, Rome, expelled the Jews from over 1,900 years ago? (Responsive to "Holy Turf Wars", April 20)
- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 1:04 PM