Who might be classified as foreign enemies of America's? Russia and China would be two. Messrs Putin and Medvedev would be very pleased if we collapsed as a nation and certainly as prime motivators of freedom and liberty throughout the world. Some might say that China's economy is too intertwined with ours and that the word competitors is the strongest that can be used. This is true only to a certain degree as it pertains to the immediate benefits and/or sustenance we give to them. These things can change at the drop of a hat and if they do the word enemy will be as apropos as ever. Soviet era Russians will live with their defeat at the hands of America and will put on a smiling face only so long as it benefits their wait to turn the tables on the world's only superpower. Islamic fundamentalism is certainly an enemy to America. Hugo Chavez, Fidel, Kim Jong-il and other Communist holdovers are enemies. There are others but suffice it to say that there are indeed enemies of America out there.
John Bachelor's radio program is one of the more profound conservative offerings on the air. His show is syndicated throughout the week but he also broadcasts a program on XM Radio channel 158 on weekend evenings. His questions to guests are often speculative and I appreciate this for this is an age, not having an equal, where potential catastrophes are literally everywhere. One particular problem he addressed today is China's aging rulers and dwindling ideology particularly as it relates to their internal problems and a succession problem in North Korea (their only ally in the region), should Kim Jong-il die.
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My point in this post is that vigilance is required, and preparation, for we are living in a period, as I wrote above, unequaled in human history. Our culture has collapsed. Would it be that our government was only is disarray, for it is actively promoting chaos on a world level. Our enemies know that this group of people with powers in government and media may be their last, best and final chance to destroy us. Kipling's Cannon to the right of them, cannon to the left of them, cannon in front of them is applicable today. These are somber times yet we continue to pursue our trivial pursuits. If ever there was a time in this nation for a Proclamation for National Day of Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer, it is now but we do not have a Congress as we had in 1863 that would construct a proclamation with words such as But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace , and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Nor do we have a president such as Abraham Lincoln that would likely sign such a proclamation if placed upon his desk. Our current National Day of Prayer substitutes meditation for humiliation, is officially observed only on occasion, compromises the one, true God and lacks the acknowledgment that we are to blame for our problems. What we do have is a general uprising of the citizenry going on that needs to focus, not so much on the Constitution as to the one who permitted that constitution to come about.