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Jefferson Aero Plane: Reflections on the Nature of U.S. Power
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I've got with me all that I need. Sunday, August 10, 2014. Reflections on the Nature of U.S. Power. Why ISIS is all the U.S.’ Fault. President Barack Obama, May 28, 2014. Worshiped the beast and asked, ‘Who is like the beast? Who can wage war against it? Today, as I write this, U.S. warplanes have been striking positions of the “Islamic State” (IS) in northwestern Iraq for three days. By now, the Islamic State’s modus operandi. The news that my country was bombing these monsters, and airdropping humanita...
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Jefferson Aero Plane: September 2013
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I've got with me all that I need. Friday, September 20, 2013. An Open Letter to Suzan Johnson-Cook, U.S. Ambassador for International Religious Freedom. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom. September 20, 2013. After two and a half years of constant, nihilistic, ever-worsening bloodshed in Syria, I’ve become somewhat desensitized to bad news. There’s a massacre in Hatla? It was bound to happen sometime. This week, you were that story. At a meeting of NGOs in New York. I won’t rec...
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Jefferson Aero Plane: June 2013
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I've got with me all that I need. Thursday, June 13, 2013. US Sending Weapons to Syrian Rebels: A Grief-Stricken Attempt at Analysis. Can we talk about what just happened? On August 20, 2012, President Obama announced. That the use of chemical weapons in Syria by the Assad regime was a "red line" that would "change his calculus" in deciding how to intervene in Syria. Translation: We're pretty sure, but not sure enough to do anything about it. The administration now concludes that all the evidence is in o...
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Jefferson Aero Plane: July 2013
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I've got with me all that I need. Sunday, July 14, 2013. The Politics of Jesus by John Howard Yoder, explained (at least to myself). I just finished reading The Politics of Jesus. By John Howard Yoder, the indispensable guide to Anabaptist Christian pacifism. Yoder's central argument is that Jesus' life and teachings are a model for how Christians should act in everyday life. This is what I grew up believing, at least implicitly, and this is what, I think, most evangelicals and Catholics teach, at least ...
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Jefferson Aero Plane: August 2014
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I've got with me all that I need. Sunday, August 10, 2014. Reflections on the Nature of U.S. Power. Why ISIS is all the U.S.’ Fault. President Barack Obama, May 28, 2014. Worshiped the beast and asked, ‘Who is like the beast? Who can wage war against it? Today, as I write this, U.S. warplanes have been striking positions of the “Islamic State” (IS) in northwestern Iraq for three days. By now, the Islamic State’s modus operandi. The news that my country was bombing these monsters, and airdropping humanita...
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Jefferson Aero Plane: July 2014
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I've got with me all that I need. Saturday, July 26, 2014. Moral Sophistry in Gaza. An attempt to stop talking past each other.". How to not let yourself get talked into killing 1,000 people.". What follows is an extended response to Charles Krauthammer’s July 17, 2014, column, “ Moral Clarity in Gaza. 8221; Krauthammer's words are in normal type. Mine are in bold. All true, though by the time of this writing, Israel has also rejected a proposed Gaza ceasefire. To avoid civilian casualties? Rarely does i...
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Jefferson Aero Plane: These Are Not The Islamophobes You're Looking For
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I've got with me all that I need. Wednesday, July 1, 2015. These Are Not The Islamophobes You're Looking For. Several times in the last few weeks, I’ve encountered the idea that U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East is driven by, or affected by, Islamophobia. I thoroughly disagree, and I've been tossing around thoughts on how to express this disagreement concisely. This is the result. It’s just not a problem in the U.S. foreign policy establishment. In the U.S. foreign policy e...Fear the president who ...
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Jefferson Aero Plane: What I Write When I Don't Write Here (and an update about the end of the world)
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I've got with me all that I need. Wednesday, February 18, 2015. What I Write When I Don't Write Here (and an update about the end of the world). Soit's been a while, Blogpost website. I do have an excuse. I'm enrolled in the M.A. degree program at the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Chicago. I'm also still working part-time. I also tend to find extracurricular projects wherever I go. It's hard to make the time. And the U.S. government's marked last of interest in it. If my...One of my...
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Jefferson Aero Plane: May 2013
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I've got with me all that I need. Saturday, May 18, 2013. A Week in God's Country. In Lebanon, the land rises steadily from the coast, a series of green mountains racing each other east towards a pinnacle in the center of the country. At Harissa, where an enormous statue of the Virgin Mary watches over the country, I can peer down into the Christian coastal town of Jounieh, south along the coast to Beirut, the capital, and up the coast all the way to Byblos. If a multitude of. On the coast of Lebanon, th...
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Jefferson Aero Plane: February 2015
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I've got with me all that I need. Wednesday, February 18, 2015. What I Write When I Don't Write Here (and an update about the end of the world). Soit's been a while, Blogpost website. I do have an excuse. I'm enrolled in the M.A. degree program at the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Chicago. I'm also still working part-time. I also tend to find extracurricular projects wherever I go. It's hard to make the time. And the U.S. government's marked last of interest in it. If my...One of my...
