Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

December 20, 2011

According to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, although the war in Iraq never received the unqualified support of the American public, ?We all recognize the tremendous price that has been paid in lives, in blood?. I think the price has been worth it, to establish a stable government in a very important region of the world.?

Panetta?s assessment, and his choice of words, is strongly reminiscent of comments made in 1996 by then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright during a 60 Minutes interview with CBS correspondent Leslie Stahl. Describing the impact of the 1991 war on Iraq, and the subsequent sanctions applied to that country, Stahl asked: ?We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima?. [I]is the price worth it??

Albright replied:  ?I think this is a very hard choice, but the price--we think the price is worth it.?

Since 1991, millions of Iraqis have been killed. Millions more were driven into exile. More than a trillion dollars have been spent. Thousands of American lives have been lost. All of this is a bargain to the people who swaddle their megalomaniacal designs in the language of humanitarianism.

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