Rick Warren is the popular and charismatic pastor at the Saddleback Church.  Barack Obama and John McCain are having a campaign forum at his Saddleback Church on Saturday.  He seems genuinely very nice and at least somewhat open-minded on some issues.  You might think a more humble foreign policy would be one place where we could seek agreement with Evangelical leaders and voters.  Yet according to this interview with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic, he still thinks the Iraq War was justified on humanitarian reasons:

[W]hether or not they found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is beside the point. Saddam and his sons were raping the country, literally. And we morally had to do something. If you have a Judeo-Christian heritage, you have to believe it when God says that evil cannot be compromised with. It has to be resisted, it has to be overcome.

http://jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/08/the_rick_warren_interview_no_c.php

It's going to be tough to reach any consensus with that rather simplistic viewpoint.

He advances this pernicious idea that the only foreign policy option for dealing with bad international actors is to invade their countries and occupy them.  That hardly seems like the humanitarian or Christian ideal.

It's also amazing that he continues to hold this opinion after all of the death, destruction and displacement that continues to take place in Iraq.  Isn't there some idea of proportionality or a humility that suggests you should not intervene and make things worse? 

Another problem with his statement is the lack of intervention in all the other places where people live with fear for their lives.  Shall we invade North Korea and Zimbabwe tomorrow?  Saddam's regime was hardly the only terrible one in the world.  Why did we choose to invade it first?