Accountability

I want to stop writing about politics.  Hopefully, this post will conclude my compulsion to write about politics for a while.  Even though no one is standing in front of me, screaming in opposition against me and what I've been writing, you wouldn't know it by the stress and anxiety I'm feeling inside.  And yet I feel compelled to write; it's that important to me.

I have to admit that, after having done the reading I have over the past few weeks, even if Obama was pro-life, if everything else was the same (on both sides), even though I'm not thrilled with McCain, I couldn't vote for Barack Obama.  In addition to supporting infanticide,

This is a helpful article about the struggles of Protestant pastors and workers in Colombia.

Now that I'm adding entries to my blog, I will say a little bit about politics. Since I'm not widely read in either world events, culture, or history, I can't say much that's authoritative or that is likely to further any given discussion. But I did vote for G.W. Bush, so I'll say a few words about how I've felt about his presidency so far.

I wrote before the Iraq War that if what the Bush administration was claiming was really true, then there was possibly justification to going back to war with Iraq. But one of the central elements in my own thinking was Accountability. The reason Hussein's government was a bad government (like so many others) was that there was no accountability, in the form of law and order, checks and balances, democracy, etc. On the other side of it, I was comfortable with Bush moving forward as long as there existed accountability for his decisions on the other side of it all.