and have been for decades, is that there is not a strategy beyond dropping bombs, to find a way out of these wars, to end the military environment. all of the military experts you ve had on the show will certainly agree that, yes, you can go after and use whatever weaponry, sophisticated weaponry you have to kill or intimidate the enemy. but at the end of the day you have to have a strategy, a complementary, parallel strategy that comes up with a means to whether it s find peace in afghanistan, after six years, in dealing with the taliban. when i was in mosul in iraq, you know, there is a sense of how you provide military security for mosul, but there s no plan for the political governance in a way that will make all the parties on the ground feel that they are invested in the process. and they don t want to sign up for the next iteration of al qaeda or isis or whatever is next.
i m going to do it in the name of god. how disgusting. this good friday jesus said came down on earth according to christian theology i m willing to die for you, who used your free will. the gift you made for love and here you are destroying each other. even when i hear the war stories going on right now dropping bombs in afghanistan, you know, sometimes violence is necessary in order to stop an unjust aggressor but god weeps. if we think that dropping bombs i m not saying sometimes it is not necessary. if we think that s a solution, i mean bill: understood. when you appear before your congregation today and this weekend what is the message that you deliver, or is that the message as you reflect on the events of the world? god weeps and he weeps with you and for all of us who are suffering. suffering in families, suffering in relationships, suffering with poverty. but god weeps and he says i m
something to beat the enemy at that place, no problem with that whatsoever. the difficulty with afghanistan is what is the strategy? when do we know we got out? we ve been there 15, 16 years. dropping bombs is not a strategy. this can be used as part of a strategy. but what is the goal in afghanistan? keep in mind, by the way, he s been asking for more ground troops. he s not granted the ground troops. bombs are not a strategy. with the guerrilla warfare in afghanistan, we know that on a broad general way they re not very effective in winning the war. i believe it happened in afghanistan with this so-called mother of all bombs. let s put an asterisk at the bottom of the page. that name is the mother of all conventional bombs. that s the mother of all bombs.
to get us in so much more trouble than we need to be in in the world is going to be heading straight for world war iii, is at the reality or is this what we need to do right now to make sure we don t wind up in world war iii? julie: after we went and dropped those tomahawk missiles in syria, i think a lot of people were concerned, are we beginning world war iii? as is contradicting to what president trump then campaigned on, that he doesn t necessarily want to get in every war or every civil war. it s not necessarily against the constitution to go forward and react. the question is now, how many countries do we get involved and where do we draw the line? we are in iraq, afghanistan, syria, talking north korea, it s scary. meghan: dropping bombs in sud so many countries. meghan: i know for one, i
sixth nuclear test. i just came back from iraq, and i think the thing that haunts all of us in covering these wars and have been for decades, is that there is not a strategy beyond dropping bombs, to find a way out of these wars, to end the military environment. all of the military experts you ve had on the show will certainly agree that, yes, you can go after and use whatever weaponry, sophisticated weaponry you have to kill or intimidate the enemy. but at the end of the day you have to have a strategy, a complementary, parallel strategy that comes up with a means to whether it s find peace in afghanistan, after six years, in dealing with the taliban. when i was in mosul in iraq, you know, there is a sense of how you provide military security for mosul, but there s no plan for the political governance in a way that will make all the parties on the ground feel that they are invested in the process. and they don t want to sign up