8/23/2007

Righteousness

I read Bush's speech in VFW, which was criticized in Bostonglobe for his views on Vietnam War.

To me, what annoyed me most is the sentence, "They(the Japanese in WWII) killed Americans because we stood in the way of their attempt to force their ideology on others."

The sentence expresses what Matthew Arnold called Hebrewism, based on the words in the Hebrews, "Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see(11/1)."

Bush, you should know that there can be differences between what you think right and what we think right. Japanese do not think our grandfathers were thoroughly correct, while they reject the Americans was perfectly right.

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