WMDs In Iraq

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Usable WMDs were in the hands of Saddam Hussein before, just before and after 11SEP01, lots of them, and many remain in Iraq. The intelligence estimates of Western nations have been…

After The Fall 2005 OIF Offensives And Hurricane Katrina

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Ultimately they are toast as long as we stay the course. It will be a first in Middle Eastern history, at least since the days the Greeks and then Romans subdued the fractious bastards. This time the faction will be defeated at…

Let Our Army Leadership Handle It, They Are Succeeding

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Responding to this. A parallel phenomenon exists in theology: the only persons who can legitimately do theology and reform the churches are those currently on the front line religiously, meaning, the genuine…

Biblical Literalism

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Discussing the internet hoax about the Koran containing a verse that specifies the date of the air attacks of 11 September 2001 on the United States: This is an excellent example of how…

American Liberal Denominations’ Opprobrium For The State Of Israel

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Though it is erroneously put and hypocritically handled by them, there is a kernel of correct in the Presb/Episc/Method/National Council of Churches, etc. opprobrium for the State of Israel. It goes way back, existed in the 60s — I have first hand…

Dialectical Realism In Regard To Tribalism

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Triggered by a comment by our soldier son, that Moslems are passing off tribal customs as Islam, I am in process of a systemic reconsideration of the entire situation, which is obsolescing most of how I have taken the situation to this…

Preach The Holy

The Church has won the war to establish human values in the national and, in principle, multi-national orbits. It took about 300 years. The Church’s secular message and mission succeeded. Additionally, humanism of all varieties has hidden religious sources and agendas. Now the Church must preach the Holy, the essential, on the far side of…

Taking Down The Hegemony Masters In Iran

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, This relates to why the Truman admin did not tell all of why they dropped the bomb — that the all was too secret to tell, both in itself and for what its telling would give away. The same factor…

Vietnam: Won or Lost?

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Responding to this: This is half-true: the war in Vietnam was being won on the ground even as it was being lost at the peace table and in the U.S. Congress.…

Multiculturalism

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Whence this multiculturalism obsession? It is drugs, both legal (prozac, pain killers, alcohol, in prepared foods, etc.) and illegal (marijuana, cocaine, etc.). During Vietnam, China was flooding at least the West Coast — that I know of — with illegal drugs, and…

On The Novelty Of Our Situation

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, A West Pointer writes: General Westmoreland just passed on. I remember him as the exceptional Commander of the 101st Airborne Division, the Army’s first rate general reserve at Fort Campbell; as the hard working, visionary MACV commander in Vietnam when I first…

David Brooks: All Cultures Are Not Equal

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT OP-ED COLUMNIST All Cultures Are Not Equal By DAVID BROOKS August 10, 2005 The New York Times Let’s say you are an 18-year-old kid with a really big brain. You’re trying…

Politics And Ecumenism

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Question: It seems to me that politics surrounding/related to terrorism (for lack of a better phrase on my part) is the impetus behind the Muslim ecumenical movement. Do you know if there was a political reason for the ecumenical movement in the US,…

On The Supreme Court’s Release Of Private Property To Commercial Interests

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT This is great. The nerve this decision touched is Boston Tea Party strength. There is a doctrine (true, standard-forming learning) in theology that the virtues and the civil laws aiming to…

The London Transit Bombings

The English-speaking nations will not stand for being attacked and will destroy anyone who has effrontery to do that, no matter how long it takes or how hard to do. Other nations can be attacked with relative impunity — Spain, Israel, Indonesia, Arabs and even to some extent French and Germans, who will prevail in…

News From Iraq And The Din Of Sedition

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT A note arrived yesterday from a leader in Iraq bearing these points: 1- The pace of operations of Coalition Forces is very high. 2- The operations continue to meet with great…