USA's Department of Defense attributes 170 deaths to Iran in Iraq

Pentagon blames Iran for killing 170 US soldiers in Iraq, says David Blair of UK's Telegraph. daily newspaper. See my post on refWrite frontpage.

It's important to keep the horizon of peace before us, even when we take up a duty that appears to some to be the opposite.

The opposite of course can happen. But other than the opposites dictated by a presumptuous binary logic, we do well to consider contraries. Contrary =/= Contradictory. We must remember that, and the eschatological ultimate horizon of Christian faith--the Coming of the Kingdom of God as the foundation of all Christian ethics (Herman Bavinck: cf Cornelius Jaarsma).