Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

April 21, 2010

James Madison regarded war to be the greatest enemy of public liberty. Karl Marx considered war the greatest ally in his quest to liquidate what he and his disciples called the ?bourgeoise? ? what we call the middle class.

Marx would approve of the Iraq war just as heartily as Madison would oppose it.

The war and occupation have demolished ?Iraq?s college-educated and largely secular middle class,? observes Deborah Amos in the New York Review of Books. At least two million Iraqis, including nearly all of that nation?s Christian population, have been driven into exile abroad. More than two million more remain displaced within the country, driven from their homes into ever-expanding ghettos.
Amos points out that ?The flight of Iraqis since the 2003 invasion ranks as the largest human displacement in the Middle East since 1948.?

Imagine how our country would look if sixty million Americans were driven from their homes. That?s what our government has done to the Iraqis.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.