Democrats reveled Tuesday night in coalescence around one candidate after a long primary battle. For many Catholics and other people of conscience, the political debate centered on the gross immorality of US foreign policy under the Bush Administration and the idea that threatening people around the world was somehow a means to advance the cause of peace.
In his speech Tuesday in Minneapolis, Senator Barack Obama spoke to those who saw in Iraq one of our greatest moral failures as a nation: "I won't stand here and pretend that there are many good options left in Iraq, but what's not an option is leaving our troops in that country for the next hundred years, especially at a time when our military is overstretched, our nation is isolated, and nearly every other threat to America is being ignored. We must be as careful getting out of Iraq as we were careless getting in, but we -- but start leaving we must."
