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Below is my latest response to the conversation, which has included the notorious, "WJWD" (what Jesus would do) and wholesale testimonials for Ron Paul and Huckabee. Yes, there are plenty of ultra conservative unschoolers out there, which never ceases to surprise me. (Said list is private, but I choose to share my response in this case.)

I discovered some facts over the weekend that crystalized a few things for me.

1. Ron Paul is very pro-life, which makes him quite a contradiction as a Libertarian.

2. Barak is for immediately pulling the troops out of Iraq with no question.

3. Hillary insists that we must leave the place with some kind of stability in place.

If your kid pounces on the cookie jar uninvited, knocks it over, breaks it and all the cookies inside, and generally makes mayhem of the kitchen, do you send him/her to bed immediately in order to clean up the mess yourself, leave it to the ants and rats to take over your kitchen, or do you expect him/her to help clean up the mess? (This argument does not apply to children under 3, and in so saying, I might be giving too much benefit of the doubt to too much of this administration.)

Personally, I was never in favor of the war. Yes, Saddam was horrific, (We should know. We put him in power.) but we went into Iraq under equipped without adequate cause and no support from the international community. Whether people were in favor or not, that's not a recipe for winning.

If we pull out immediately, we leave another mess, another Viet Nam, another Cambodia. We need to leave another Japan. The countries we occupied have faired better than those we abandoned and have posed far less threat upon recovery. Admittedly, I'd have a harder time saying this if I had loved ones there, and, truly, my heart goes out to all, who do.

As for Jesus, he seems to have had no problem with women in power. (It was Paul, who came on the scene years later, who damned us all.) Poor Mary Magdalene, so long unjustly accused of being the prostitute to be stoned, was, according to most Biblical scholars, a woman of independent means, who probably footed the bill for all those guys to stop being fishers of fish, and of course, it is recorded that it was she, not Peter, to whom Jesus first appeared and instructed to spread the word.

"WJWD" seems to be used as a manipulation tactic a lot, but if it makes people by hybrid cars and act with a little compassion now and again, I'll stop rolling my eyes. People, who claim God told them through prayer to lead particular ways have included numerous disgustingly corrupt popes and televangelists, David Koresh, and Charles Manson. Give me a rational non religious leader any day. Any fool can claim to be God-fearing, but peoples' lack of intelligence is quite verifiable.

As for how this relates to unschooling, France has never liked us despite our inspiring their revolution and our coming to their rescue in a couple of World Wars, but I'd really really like to take my child to the Louvre one day. I'd like to take Skyler all kinds of places to show him the richness and diversity of the world. How can I do that if everyone hates Americans because we continue to make messes that threaten everyone's peace?

Still pro-brains,
Victoria