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Article: 'If all you have is a hammer ...'.(FROM THE EDITOR)(foreign policy of united states)
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- Sojourners Magazine
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- August 1, 2006
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The best line I heard in the period leading up to the war in Iraq was, "If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." It came from my friend Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, when we were on a panel together in England about file best response to terrorism.
The premise of the panel was that the threat of terrorism is real, that there are real dangers prowling about in our world, and that the problem of evil is a very serious one. The question we were addressing was what the best response to the real threats of terrorism should be.
Let me say what we have said before in these pages, before this awful war began: The war with Iraq ...