I too, apologize. I just got a new computer so for the last few days I have been consumed by trying to understand it… it has been to no avail.
I really enjoyed reading everyone’s posts. The content of our conversation has really begun to express deep concern. What this means to me is the more we read about these issues and discuss them with one another, we begin to let go of some of our starting prejudices. Not all, but some, and that is a start. Hopefully what people will get out of reading our wiki is that we struggle in light of these issues. We have wrestled with the angel of information and demanded a blessing. Well some might consider it a blessing, others, well, a curse.
I think that this overall project has just shown us what the world is vastly becoming. We have experienced various viewpoints, great and not so great arguments, and tools for people who are committed to the ways of Christ. The culture that we are immersed in is morphing. The nation-state is having to redefine itself. The global structures of power are having to redefine themselves. We are having to redefine ourselves. What shall we stand upon? Jesse is right in recognizing the need for God to be at work in these situations, and the need for Christ followers to be present and engaged.
My belief is we need to look at the positive and negative of military globalization. We can think of innovative ways to combat the negative while molding the positive side of peacekeeping. The interrelationship between the micro and macro levels of our society are at stake, but as the book points out, so are that of other nations as well. The U.S. as the military elite is at the top, yes, but we share the frustrations that come from an ever globalized world. Violence is raging more in the micro-structures of society around the world and this affects us here, not only as Christians who hate to see injustice, but as a world whose interconnection is real.