Who Would Jesus Bomb?

John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute writes an interesting article, "What Would Jesus Bomb?" at The Christian Post.

Whitehead writes:

In a twisted play on the popular refrain "WWJD?"—What Would Jesus Do?—some anti-war activists have begun asking "What Would Jesus Bomb?" It is a question for which President Bush, a self-avowed Christian, seems to have no answer, at least if one were to judge by his authorization of bombing campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan and his silence over Israel’s latest military actions in Lebanon.

Yet most of the people I polled, a mixture of Christians and non-Christians, do not suffer the same confusion. "What or who would Jesus bomb?" they were asked. Their answers never varied: "Jesus would not bomb or kill anyone."

When pressed to explain, the responses ranged from "Jesus would have shown compassion rather than killing anyone" to "God is love" to "Jesus was always looking to love his enemies"—and so on.

On the surface this seems like an unanswerable challenge but, in fact, this objection to the war is faulty.

• The challenge refers to Jesus in his first incarnation where he would use the physical to point to a transcendent truth.
• He modeled the Kingdom of Heaven as an individual not a government official. This may be an argument against Christians going to war but it's not an argument against war.
• They exclude the Jesus of Matthew 25:31-46 where He sends the wicked to "eternal punishment".
• Christianity says Jesus is God. The same God of Love who directed the Israelites numerous times to go to war and kill everyone of their enemies.

Those using this challenge, invoke Jesus as Lamb while ignoring Jesus as Lion.
The article quotes Bonhoffer as evidence for the author's position:

"Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness and pride of power and with its plea for the weak."

Bonhoffer was executed because he tried to kill Hitler. So "who would Jesus assassinate?" Bonhoffer saw killing Hitler as a chance to save lives.

Lastly, "Who Would Jesus Bomb" during WWII or was trying (and eventually) saving the world from the evil and destruction of facism wrong? After all, if God is love and wouldn't kill anyone then He would have had to let Hitler (or any evil) continue unabated.