As the U.S. comes off of a tense standoff with Iran, a Detroit-area Bishop known for speaking truth to power has now set his sights on the prolonged U.S. wars in the Middle East.
Writing in CounterPunch, Bishop Thomas Gumbleton of the Archdiocese of Detroit has called for Catholics to refuse to participate in further U.S. wars. In his argument, Gumbleton, 89, cites the release of the Afghanistan Papers, a massive trove of documents published by the Washington Post late last year that shows how U.S. officials went to great lengths to mislead the public about the war in Afghanistan.
Gumbleton writes:
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