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Tom Gauldin wrote:

>Then, you and Jesus invest your own time, money and efforts to save
>humanity.  Leave the rest of us alone.

It's one thing to question the investment of time and money and
military personnel on stopping the violence in East Timor. It's quite
another thing to say that "we don't give a sh*t" and "we don't care."

Regarding the use of our military:

When I was in the Marines, I would have been much happier to risk my
life for a moral good than for the strategic-economic goals we always
were sent off to defend. On the way back from the Gulf, my battalion
stopped off to provide humanitarian assistance to a country that had
suffered a natural disaster, and the common remark among the Marines
was that we were "finally doing something worth something." Throughout
our training, we all were prepared to give our lives in service, which
is a hard concept to get your mind around. It made it easier to accept
when I thought I would be doing something, fighting for something, that
God would approve. And stopping people from killing each other, as
Jesus stopped the Pharisees from stoning the woman caught in adultery,
is something God would approve, I think. What is your money, anyway?
The concern of a man and his world.

"Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not
of this world." John 8:23

Duncan