Face Of The Day

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An Iraqi Christian woman sits for the first church service in months during a Chaldean Catholic mass November 15, 2007 in Bagdhad, Iraq. The service was held at St. John the Baptist, a church in the neighborhood of Dora that closed earlier this year due to Islamist terrorist threats. A recent decrease in violence has allowed the Iraqi Christians to re-open the church for the first time in seven months, and the afternoon mass attracted around a hundred worshippers. By Chris Hondros/Getty Images.

Giuliani: Bush Squared

All the current president’s liabilities and even less experience in foreign policy. Then this dead-on description of his leadership style:

"a monarchy fortified by numerous other devoted courtiers and confidants who share one thing in common: intense loyalty…"

Anyone else, please. He makes Cheney look flexible and open-minded. He makes Clinton look transparent.  And there isn’t a civil liberty he wouldn’t love to take away.

Love and Divorce

A reader writes:

When you follow the link to the Christian post on the merits of divorce, the examples given are extremely black and white. Leaving a sick, abusive, or simply uninterested spouse is a no-brainer.  It takes two people to make a marriage, so logically if one person emotionally opts out, there is no real marriage.

But sometimes marriages just die. In my own situation, my husband and I went through a series of major crises that we simply did not have the resources to recover from as a couple.  We loved each other and wanted to stay together, but ultimately realized that we could not take care of each other.  I fought very hard to keep the marriage together but in the end realized that I could not hold my partner hostage to a failed relationship.  I had to let him go so he could make a new and hopefully better life for himself.  When I explained this to my girlfriend (who happens to be a therapist) she commented, "That’s love."