Upright: âDespite the talk of a âforever war,â US troops in Afghanistan areÂ
not embroiled in warfare. The last American combat death occurred well over a year ago. Only about 3,500 US military personnel are deployed to Afghanistan, and they are involved primarily in training and logistics. Removing those forces will gain America very little. But it will immeasurably benefit the Taliban, who will exult, with reason, at having driven out the Americans.â âJeff Jacoby
Re: The Left: âThe catastrophe now unfolding at our border is a direct result of progressive policies and pronouncements emanating from Democrats in Washington. But Democrats can end this disaster just as quickly as they caused it. All they have to do is reinstate commonsense border enforcement and stop treating U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol as a concierge service for illegal aliens.â âMike Pence
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No Mere Christian The cover of your November issue suggests the truth that we, conservatives and especially conservative Christians, are engaged in spiritual warfare. And yet, smack in the middle of that issue, you print an article, “Remembering C. S. Lewis.” The reader is led to believe that this man has been a powerful instrument of truth and has fought the good fight of faith to the very end. In Lewis’s
Surprised by Joy (1955), we discover that he defended pederasty and perversion as “the only chink left through which something spontaneous and uncalculating could creep in”…. Then, we come to the more sordid aspects of his life. He had a relationship with a schoolmate, Arthur Greeves, and throughout his life wrote more letters to him than any other person… Later biographies disclosed that Mr. Greeves was a homosexual. It appears that Lewis was never moved by the impulse to separate as is mandated by both the old and new covenants.