Here is some thought from Brian Mclaren's book "The Secret Message of Jesus" on the subject of justice/forgiveness that we talked about a few days ago. Thought this was helpful. It's easy to always look at the U.S. as the good guy, but as McLaren says below, the same evil is at work within this country as it is in Iraq.
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can’t murder murder.
Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can’t establish truth.
Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can’t murder hate.
Darkness cannot put out darkness. Only light can do that.”
“Every warring nation emphasizes the evil of its enemy; few resist the temptation to minimize their own evil. Fewer still realize that the same evils are at work in both “them” and “us,” and therefore pose a common universal enemy-and it is this universal enemy that the kingdom of God fights with its weapons “not of this world.” Pg. 156
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