To those of you who have read one of the comments (posted twice by a reader of my blog), it is clear that Travis Johnson of the 82nd Airborne in Kandahar, Afghanistan is a right-wing Christian, most likely Evangelical. People familiar with this particular branch of Protestantism, can understand this post quite easily, but it would be interesting to hear what someone living outside the US thinks of those types of viewpoints. But, it must be noted that not all right-wing Evangelicals believe as Travis does. Although many do, and I have to concede quite a few points to many of their arguments.

At this point, I do not know if I subsribe to the views of Evangelicals, but I am also far, far from convinced by the ideas espoused by the liberal, left-wing secularists who dominate most of Western Europe and the denser metropolitan areas of the US. To me, their complete atheism and slowly eroding value system are indicative of some worrying shortcomings that can be damaging to societies. Communists are the furthest left in the liberal spectrum, and it is clear that they have severely damaged numerous societies the world over. Some of those societies are only now, generations later, starting to recover their basic rights and develop something resembling economic viability. The remaining post-communist countries are in a grave social, political and economic situation. Russia being a prime example. I'll write more on that later.