James R. Lilley Quotes
It was a sacred war. A good war.
He was then a CIA secret operative, in effect the “Commanding General of the War in Laos. The Viet Cong to avoid attack by American and South Vietnamese troops would cross the border into Laos where they could resupply, rest and reenter Vietnam at a strategic time and place. The American’s, to cope with this tactic, bombed the Viet Cong camps in Laos and CIA personnel organized attacks on the Viet Cong. To some, it was a dirty, illegal war by the standards of International and American law and its existence was denied by the U. S. Government for years.
James R. Lilley, 1928–2009, CIA Chief of Laos Station un Vietnam War, Ambassador to China, Director of the American Institute in Taiwan, Describing the Secret War in Laos that was a part of the Vietnam War
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The Turks could not take the city then, but they did 56 years later in 1453.
For many extremists Muslims, this sura calls for the torture or killing of the enemies of Islam. For the more moderate Muslims, the penalty of opposing Islam should be expulsion or banishment. The further modern complication of this sura is the definition of “making war with Allah.” To some extremists, it is writing or publishing anything contrary to their view of Islam; it is occupying any Islamic nation or warring with that nation even though the basis of the war might have nothing to do with religion; it is bringing a Bible into an Islamic nations; it is allowing alcohol to be sold and served; it is opposing their discriminatory customs and laws; it is pressuring them not to stone adulteresses.
The chairman resigned in protest over the refusal of the government to declassify historical documents years after the events.
Calley was the officer who gave orders to kill men, women and children of My Lai, a Vietnam village which Army intelligence felt had been sympathetic and given help and assistance to the Viet Cong. Calley was convicted by Court Marshall, but was released after serving a very light sentence. No one above Cally was held in any way responsible.
This is the justification that some Muslims use for the murder of prisoners of war if the war is perceived to be an attack on Allah. This for most includes Westerners.
A force of 4,000 Spaniards, aided by Irish Catholics attempted to thwart the English Protestant Reformation forces in Ireland. They were defeated in their war by Lord Mountjoy. This is one of the many wars in history that was described as “holy” by one or both of its participants.
The Papacy was at one of it’s lowest points. Two men, Clement and Urban, both claimed the Papacy and each had raised an army to fight the other. Each was promising indulgences to those who would fight, and in a modality similar to the Muslim terrorists of the 21st century, the soldiers were promised ascendancy to Heaven if they fell in battle for such a holy cause. The armies of the popes marched under the cross as their banner, and Wycliffe found that obscene and actually wrote a treatise saying so. See {618087}.
Professor Tibi and others have also pointed out that with this definition within Islam, there is no possible justification for a non-Muslim state to war against a Muslim state even of the non-Muslim state was attacked first. However, note that most educated Muslims, like Dr, Tibi, do not hold this preposterous position. It does however illustrate why some Muslims can be outraged when Israel fights back against the thousands of rockets fired from Gaza. To them the 7000 rocket firing was a just war to make Israel a Muslim territory, but no retaliation by non-Muslims can be just.
James Roderick Lilley was an American diplomat who served as United States ambassador to China at the time of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.
