An article in The Morning News about my participation in a forum on religion and the Iraq war.
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Doug Krueger, philosophy and worlds religion instructor at NorthWest Arkansas Community College and co-founder of the Fayetteville Freethinkers, said his biggest complaint is the mindset that several people had going into the war.
"We didn't approach it with a healthy enough degree of skepticism," Krueger said.
Buddist representative Geshe Thupten Dorjee agreed that the government did not explore all possibilities before declaring war.
"We jumped from option one to the last option," Dorjee said. "That's the wrong idea; however, what's done is done."
Several panelists agreed that instead of looking at what should have been done, the focus needs to be on the present.
"We're in there, but what do we do now?" Krueger asked.
To learn from the war, Kreuger argued that people need to analyze the issue objectively.
"When we examine this, we need to look at it with a dispassionate eye," he said "My hope is that we'll look at it just looking at the evidence."