I was only 12 years old when the Cuban Missile Crisis took place in October of 1962 but I remember well the fuss, and since then there have been countless articles, a number of books and a few movies made on those thirteen days in October. That 'crisis' though...pales in comparison to the one that we now have with Communist North Korea.
A book was published in 1970 titled Khrushchev Remembers, and I read it a few years after its publication for I was at Pitt at the time looking for anything to read other than the assigned books that I should have been reading. Supposedly the Former Soviet Premier dictated and then smuggled out of the USSR tapes which would become the book. The general reflection on Khrushchev Remembers is that it probably came from his dictated tapes but that in no ways insures that what he dictated was absolutely true or accurate. One thing that did stay with me from reading it was that Khrushchev was sane. We very well may not be dealing with a sane individual in North Korea.
I was in conversation on this earlier tonight and the word 'unspeakable' was what came to mind...as to the potential loss of life.... so great that it should have a sobering effect on anyone seriously watching this situation develop. There should not be a pulpit in America this Lords' Day that does not lead the congregation in prayers of petition for wisdom for all those involved in this decision-making, mercy upon all of us who find ourselves in this situation and strength for our military that may be called upon to intervene in this godless, communist tyrant's wreaking havoc in the geopolitics around the 38th parallel on the Korean Peninsula and even the geopolitics of the Middle East as it passes through Iran.
A book was published in 1970 titled Khrushchev Remembers, and I read it a few years after its publication for I was at Pitt at the time looking for anything to read other than the assigned books that I should have been reading. Supposedly the Former Soviet Premier dictated and then smuggled out of the USSR tapes which would become the book. The general reflection on Khrushchev Remembers is that it probably came from his dictated tapes but that in no ways insures that what he dictated was absolutely true or accurate. One thing that did stay with me from reading it was that Khrushchev was sane. We very well may not be dealing with a sane individual in North Korea.
I was in conversation on this earlier tonight and the word 'unspeakable' was what came to mind...as to the potential loss of life.... so great that it should have a sobering effect on anyone seriously watching this situation develop. There should not be a pulpit in America this Lords' Day that does not lead the congregation in prayers of petition for wisdom for all those involved in this decision-making, mercy upon all of us who find ourselves in this situation and strength for our military that may be called upon to intervene in this godless, communist tyrant's wreaking havoc in the geopolitics around the 38th parallel on the Korean Peninsula and even the geopolitics of the Middle East as it passes through Iran.
