But the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ‘You have shed much blood and have waged great wars; you shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed so much blood in my sight on the earth.
- 1 Chronicles 22:8
3 guesses as to modern nation which closely models that described above? Perhaps a great country built on bloodied backs of kidnapped slaves?
Could we say 'tis the country which unleashed the nuclear sword on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which although dread and terrible probably still killed less than the original sin of slavery?
Could we use the example of a country which fought 2 land wars in Asia: 1 which has not ended on the Korean peninsula and another where our Vietnamese allies became abandoned, the latter where US experts told politicians we could not win.
Or could we use the example of country which declared a global war on terror which will last for generations since we can't kill an idea? This war recently claimed the lives of 4 American patriots in some homeless, misbegotten jungle. Our leaders claim the right to blow anyone anywhere to bits, even Americana.
Whither our cival rights? Whither the Constitution?
