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Delivered said:
Since we "wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places".

Are the elect instructed to go into another land and take part in the forceful subduing of an entire country resulting in the murder of many? I speak not of self defense and it can be argued by some, that directly attacking the enemy is the best defense, however this is not my thought on the matter.

Nonetheless, are we instructed by Christ to take our weapons and invade another person's land and kill their family in the effort to protect ourself and the ones whom we have killed. Not speaking directly about the war in Iraq, just examining the concept of war and what the Bible says about it just for those who may jump on me about the issue in Iraq, I am speaking about the concept of war and the instructions to believers).

Who is our enemy? Is it not the devil? Will he not just move to another object of manipulation if we remove the object?
Delivered.

Delivered what you have asked here is the concept of Jus Ad Bellem or Just War. When is war just and when it isn't. Now others have answered to you regarding the concept of government and church. But what I would like to ask you is it right to allow the head of a government to murder citizens within its border? Should we as people do nothing? How about to enslave one particular group within its borders? Should that be allowed to continue? What about if they sell those persons to another country as slaves? Should that be allowed to continue? Okay, how about this what if one country invades another country but you live in a third country completely isolated by distance and ocean from the invading country or the country being invaded should you intervene?

But lets go simpler. Your neighbor to your right walks across your lawn to the neighbor on your left and begins to beat the living tar out of him. Do you intervene? If so why? If not why?

Peter

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself. Augustine of Hippo