Christian sacrifice.

• Author: Swart, Stanley L.
• Position: Letters

Joshua Green's account of the "God's Foreign Policy" movement (November 2001) is brilliant--as far as it goes. But Green downplays the two most important factors in the growth of what he labels "Christian Solidarity."

First, this group's national leadership consists of radical-right Republicans who have cynically betrayed the rank-and-file Christian membership. Proof? Their failure to work with President Bill Clinton in the 1998 Sudan crisis. By 1998 Clinton had proven his willingness to use military force in the pursuit of humanitarian goals. In that year the match was perfect--Christian solidarity working with the Clinton administration to save Christians while also punishing the Sudanese government for hosting a little-known terrorist named--what was...