WORLD gets it wrong

Here is my response to Marvin Olasky's osbscenely wrong editorial in WORLD Magazine on July 21st:

Dear Editor,

I am absolutely appalled that a Christian would attempt to justify the mass
killing of innocent people in Japan and Germany by our government in order to win
World War II. This is "ends justifies the means" argument is a blatant rejection
of Augustinian Just War criteria and of all that the Bible teaches. In particular, the firebombing of Tokyo, Dresden, and Berlin killed over 100,000 innocent civilians and contributed
little--if anything--to ending the war. It was not evenly remotely just. To apply
the Biblical command regarding the Amalekites to our own conflicts is to make
the same hermeneutical (and moral) error that some used to justify the extermination of American Indians. If we believe that our ends, however just, sanctify any and all means, then
we have sunk to the same level as the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11. As Christians, we must hold our nation to a higher standard.

Scott Roney
Des Plaines, IL

I have subscribed to WORLD for nearly 10 years now, and I appreciate it highly and agree with their opinions about 90% of the time. But sometimes they completely miss the boat. I submitted the above letter to WORLD, with a few changes. They published it, along with two insightful replies supporting Olasky, here in the latest edition.