Weekend Book Review: The Only Thing Worth Dying For by Eric Blehm

Eric Blehm.  The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Forged a New Afghanistan  New York, NY: Harper, January 19^th, 2010.  400 pp.

Rating: 5 out of 5

This is the story of a US Special Forces team called ODA 574 and their mission in sourthern Afghanistan in the early days of the US invasion after September 11^th.  The author interviewed the survivors of the team, other military servicemembers who interacted with the team and also poured over official government documents.  Most amazing of all is the fact that the author got to interview Hamid Karzai himself, the president of Afghanistan whom at that time was little known.  This is the story of the tip of the spear of the US military bringing the war to the very home of the Taliban in Southern Afghanistan.

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Presuppositional #Apologetics’ Links: Third Week of September 2016

Here are links related to Presuppositional apologetics gathered between September 15th-21th, 2016.

1.) Greg Bahnsen Defender of the Truth

2.) The Presupposition of the Triune God

3.) Monergism Guest post: Doing Math with Dice and Atheism’s Destruction of Knowledge

4.) Apologetic methodology revisited

5.) Steampunk Bahnsen

6.) Gene Cook’s recent The BJJ Moses Podcast Show #16 (GWTM)

7.) The Narcissism of a Popular Atheist Reddit Comment Against Religion

 

Missed the last round up?  Check out the re-blogged post from a friend OR that of Another REBLOG HERE

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