By: Lee M.

Lee M. — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 07:21:48 +0000

This is off topic. OK to delete.

Regarding the book Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History how about you writing a review of the book in this blog? Or alternately, post links to a book review.

Regarding your photo of the Alexandra library, how about a link to a description of the site. Which library, when was it built?

Regarding your blog, I appreciate your high quality thought. A great addition would be one photo or scanned item with each entry.

Finally, in the about-the-author how about a discreet email address, perhaps concealed but open (like a scanned photo of your hand written email address). To enable communicating to you.

By: Stephen Brown

Stephen Brown — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:58:31 +0000

Thanks. That was a splendid read, and among other things, I particularly appreciated the reference to Islam and the just war tradition, whose criteria are about limiting war rather than promoting it.

I remember a debate during the anti-nuclear weapons campaigns between pacifists (Christian and otherwise) who rejected the just war theory, and those who supported it because no nuclear war could ever be justified according to the just war criteria.

As well as the just war tradition, a number of commentators have also pointed out Obama’s intellectual debt to the theological and ethical legacy of Reinhold Niebuhr

http://www.anglicanjournal.com/100/article/obamas-peace-prize-speech-prompts-debate-on-ethics-of-war/?cHash=8ae03e7576

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/15/opinion/15brooks.html?_r=1

Now all I need to do is to do a similarly detailed and forensic comparison of Obama’s speech to Niebuhr’s ethics …

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By: Lee M.

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