Catching up on reading Mark Shea

... I am recognizing that it isn't just [Roman] Catholics on the Left who choose to be flavor-free salt among their political fellows.

Thanks for this. I too have been shocked by GOP morph into the Salvation through Leviathan by Any Means Necessary party, but even more shocked to see Catholics making excuses for it. I'm glad to see that there are voices being raised against it.

Having blundered into this war at the pleasure of a brutal and incompetent Administration... the only thing stupider would be to expand the war to Iran.