C.E. Swain's diatribe, ad nauseam, "Where is the Christian voice on the war?", Sep 8, 2007, on the battle in Iraq, can only bring to mind that which British philosopher, John Stuart Mill had to say about war in 1865:

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."