Expendable lives?

[Albert Camus] could not accept a view of the world in which individual human beings were considered expendable, whatever the end...His sense of injustice was closely tied to his passionate concern that no human being be wantonly cheated of his fragile chance to experience happiness as well as pain, and thereby be excluded from the full glory of life itself.
~Germaine Bree, Camus and Sartre, 65-66.

Pakistan Condemns Purported CIA Air Strike
The Associated Press
Saturday 14 January 2006

Damadola, Pakistan - Pakistan on Saturday condemned a purported CIA air strike on a border village that officials said unsuccessfully targeted al-Qaida's second-in-command, and said it was protesting to the US Embassy over the attack that killed at least 17 people.
Thousands of local tribesmen, chanting "God is Great," demonstrated against the attack, claiming the victims were local villagers without terrorist links and had never hosted Ayman al-Zawahri.
Two senior Pakistani officials told The Associated Press that the CIA acted on incorrect information in launching the attack early Friday in the northwestern village of Damadola, near the Afghan border.
Citing unidentified American intelligence officials, US news networks reported that CIA-operated Predator drone aircraft carried out the missile strike because al-Zawahri, Osama bin Laden's top lieutenant, was thought to be at a compound in the village or about to arrive.
"Their information was wrong, and our investigations conclude that they acted on a false information," said a senior Pakistani intelligence official with direct knowledge of Pakistan's investigations into the attack.
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What would Jesus do? I think he'd say screw the Pharisees. Doesn’t mean he doesn’t love them and isn't greatly saddened by their actions. Just means that what’s not God about them is unacceptable to him. Which in the case of the Pharisees, and many of today's politicians and CEO's, was/is a big Eskimo style parka worth of corrupt insulation. For the pharisees, it was corrupt insulation from what the people really needed to be human--not laws or rejection for mistakes (or rejection for who they were), but forgiveness and recognition of innate human worth. For today's powerful, it's corrupt insulation from the consequences of their decisions that certain lives are expendable. We're called to refuse to accept that insulation, to beat it down and to hate it and to live our lives against it, without constraint. Jesus died to show us how.