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By Sally Quinn | Tuesday, January 9, 2007 | The Washington Post

Sally Quinn is a co-moderator of On Faith, an online “conversation on religion” (i.e., a blog) sponsored by The Washington Post and Newsweek magazine at:

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith

On Faith looks polished and genuinely interesting, from a quick preliminary peek. There are many pages of what seems to be wide-ranging and tightly edited material. I encourage the interested reader to follow the link above. Among other features, Quinn and her co-editor Jon Meacham interview a number of notable spiritual leaders, sampling a wide range of organized faiths (and some not-so-organized ones).

In this piece Quinn recounts her own horror as a ten year old child witnessing first hand the death, mutilation, mourning and broken lives that are the true tangible product of the wars begun by political leaders. Obviously, this seminal event was a kind of religious awakening for her, and she expresses her ideals in a very sincere and genuine and non-judgmental way. In short, she sounds like One of Us – but she wasn’t in HAIR ;-).

She thinks there are three options in Iraq, all of them immoral to some degree: keep the status quo and pull out gradually; surge the number of troops; or pull out now. She thinks the latter is the least bad of the three…BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/08/AR2007010801417.html