Sultan -- I usually enjoy your messages, but the triple post is Chicos-like.
Anyone want to talk about sex and religion?
Please lock thread.
Well I was asked questions in two of them, and the third was a response to a point I made.
But I am done with this topic and apologize for my role in it.
Back to James Foley which this thread was supposed to be about. In the first half of the CBS Morning News this morning a young reporter who has been helping fill in for Charlie Rose this week is an MU grad (I forget his name) and mentioned that Foley too was an MU grad and mentioned that Foley stated that his Jesuit education at MU was key part of his life that lead him to originally become a teacher and how he would say the rosary when in captivity in Libya knowing that his mom and grandmother would be doing the same - a way to communicate with them without actually communicating with them. They showed a picture of him talking to an audience with someone in the background wearing an MU sweatshirt - maybe at MU maybe?
Last edited by CaribouJim; 08-21-2014 at 08:22 AM.
Here's the segment- http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/journa...nd-compassion/
Ben Tracy is the reporter. '98 grad, who worked at MU before joining CBS. He's actually on the BOT now.
I understand that point well, and our country's history isn't pristine when you look at whom we have supported in the past, or maybe do now. That also has to be taken in the context of the political winds of the time, i.e the Cold War. Both sides used proxies. the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Distasteful much of the time, but sometimes necessary.
Please do not forget that our country as TWICE intervened in world wide conflicts for freedom against tyranny. That history should still count for something!
Today, we have no cold war, and when possible we should be standing up agains despots everywhere, as we are the only country with the power and history to justify doing so.
I will drop this as well, out of respect for other posters and the deceased, may he rest in peace.