Folks, where do you stand on this issue of the Syria missile strikes? If you agree with the concerns in the following post, and the concerns over Donald Trump in general, then please pass this on.....or write a better one yourself....but please don't stand on the sidelines! This post is from last week but I want to keep it closer to the top:
The conservative radio talk show hosts that I heard today seemed to be split down the middle on the Syrian air base attack but it's Mark Levin 's comments that I want to respond to. He was unrelenting in his criticism and verbal attacks on those of us who do not automatically support this military action. It is not the missile attack in itself that causes us to not just immediately jump on board and celebrate America's power. It's much more than that.
Some of us are seeing signs in Donald Trump of an egomania that transcends the patriotic feelings that he may have. Some of us have seen this from the very beginning. How does a man change so drastically in his political beliefs, from liberal to conservative, in such a short time? Well maybe Donald Trump hadn't really changed to begin with? He ran his populist campaign on being anti-establishment but he seems to be embracing that which he condemned not too long ago. This type of crass political behavior does not usually inspire confidence.
I am by no means convinced that his decision in Syria was a result of emotions after this chemical attack....I believe that he may have used the chemical attack....that he and his new advisors saw the opportunity to make some strategic moves in the Middle East and took advantage of it. If a church is burned in Nigeria tomorrow with the same amount of loss of life will he then be just as outraged? Are the photos more horrible than hundreds of burned bodies of men, women and children or dozens of decapitated Christians?
Did the Chinese president's presence in the United States have anything to do with his actions? Was it meant as a warning to North Korea? The answer to both is probably yes. It also took away a lot of the heat he has been taking for his moves towards the establishment. We are talking about moving our embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Why...other than that he promised it in his campaign? There is no biblical mandate for this...none...it's political.....and dangerous.
It's one thing to care little to nothing about the atrocities occurring in Syria...perpetrated by both sides....and yet another to simply question a man who has as of yet given little evidence of any wisdom. It is also one thing in not announcing military plans ahead of the actual moves because it is simple common sense....and yet entirely another in using this welcomed logic to possibly start a war without even consulting the Congress. And lastly it is one thing to defend the weak even at danger to yourself and yet another to put our military in harms way over some think tank's plans on restructuring the world.
The following is a portion of a March 2012 post.
"There's a scene from Ted Turner's Gettysburg where Brigadier General John Buford, played by Sam Elliot, scans rocky heights and farm land that would in one day become a battlefield and he literally spews out these words as he foresees carnage in the Union army if the politicians and generals play their war games as usual, afterwards men in tall hats and gold watch fobs will thump their chests and say 'what a brave charge it was'..... I've never seen anything as brutally clear as this.... It's as if I can actually see the blue troops in one long bloody moment....as if it were already done....as if tomorrow already happened and there ain't nothin you can do about it..."
Those of us who will not so quickly 'thump our chests..." in pride... will not do so because there is too much evidence from the past where we initiated military action, and military personnel died, when it was later found out that circumstances where not quite as we were initially told. Brigadier General John Buford succeeded in securing the high ground prior to the main battle of Gettysburg. The 'high ground' for America in what is ahead would be humility, repentance and reverence of God who has sustained us as a people on this continent for over four centuries. Failing to do this would mean that we are on our own in what is ahead.
The conservative radio talk show hosts that I heard today seemed to be split down the middle on the Syrian air base attack but it's Mark Levin 's comments that I want to respond to. He was unrelenting in his criticism and verbal attacks on those of us who do not automatically support this military action. It is not the missile attack in itself that causes us to not just immediately jump on board and celebrate America's power. It's much more than that.
Some of us are seeing signs in Donald Trump of an egomania that transcends the patriotic feelings that he may have. Some of us have seen this from the very beginning. How does a man change so drastically in his political beliefs, from liberal to conservative, in such a short time? Well maybe Donald Trump hadn't really changed to begin with? He ran his populist campaign on being anti-establishment but he seems to be embracing that which he condemned not too long ago. This type of crass political behavior does not usually inspire confidence.
I am by no means convinced that his decision in Syria was a result of emotions after this chemical attack....I believe that he may have used the chemical attack....that he and his new advisors saw the opportunity to make some strategic moves in the Middle East and took advantage of it. If a church is burned in Nigeria tomorrow with the same amount of loss of life will he then be just as outraged? Are the photos more horrible than hundreds of burned bodies of men, women and children or dozens of decapitated Christians?
Did the Chinese president's presence in the United States have anything to do with his actions? Was it meant as a warning to North Korea? The answer to both is probably yes. It also took away a lot of the heat he has been taking for his moves towards the establishment. We are talking about moving our embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Why...other than that he promised it in his campaign? There is no biblical mandate for this...none...it's political.....and dangerous.
It's one thing to care little to nothing about the atrocities occurring in Syria...perpetrated by both sides....and yet another to simply question a man who has as of yet given little evidence of any wisdom. It is also one thing in not announcing military plans ahead of the actual moves because it is simple common sense....and yet entirely another in using this welcomed logic to possibly start a war without even consulting the Congress. And lastly it is one thing to defend the weak even at danger to yourself and yet another to put our military in harms way over some think tank's plans on restructuring the world.
The following is a portion of a March 2012 post.
"There's a scene from Ted Turner's Gettysburg where Brigadier General John Buford, played by Sam Elliot, scans rocky heights and farm land that would in one day become a battlefield and he literally spews out these words as he foresees carnage in the Union army if the politicians and generals play their war games as usual, afterwards men in tall hats and gold watch fobs will thump their chests and say 'what a brave charge it was'..... I've never seen anything as brutally clear as this.... It's as if I can actually see the blue troops in one long bloody moment....as if it were already done....as if tomorrow already happened and there ain't nothin you can do about it..."
Those of us who will not so quickly 'thump our chests..." in pride... will not do so because there is too much evidence from the past where we initiated military action, and military personnel died, when it was later found out that circumstances where not quite as we were initially told. Brigadier General John Buford succeeded in securing the high ground prior to the main battle of Gettysburg. The 'high ground' for America in what is ahead would be humility, repentance and reverence of God who has sustained us as a people on this continent for over four centuries. Failing to do this would mean that we are on our own in what is ahead.
