Praying for Peace in a Time of War
I've been struggling for some time to write an article about the situation in the Middle East. So much of what I find in other blogs is either insanely anti-Jewish or ignorantly anti-Muslim. Who can see the real problem amidst all this emotionally charged diatribe?
It is easy for those who haven't done much study of history, or had much exposure to other cultures to view every culture through the matrix of their own paltry experience. To those of us raised in America in the late 20th century, it seems inconceivable that there are those who prefer war to peace. Yet in our own culture, less than a century ago there were celebrations in the streets at the start of WWI. Well, the realities of that war and the bigger one that followed killed any notions of the romance and glory of war. And that is the milieu in which we were all raised.
But not everybody in the world was raised in that same peace-and-prosperity-loving environment. Wishful thinking on the part of peaceniks won't make the war-lovers change their minds. It was only war on a colossal scale that changed the mind of the West. I fear the only thing that will change the minds of the Islamic fascists is to wreak death and carnage on them. That is my fear. I hope that I am wrong about this. Let us pray for peace. But let us not be blind to the lessons of history.
My challenge to my readers is to find an example of a regime determined to wage war that was
dissuaded by diplomacy.
It is easy for those who haven't done much study of history, or had much exposure to other cultures to view every culture through the matrix of their own paltry experience. To those of us raised in America in the late 20th century, it seems inconceivable that there are those who prefer war to peace. Yet in our own culture, less than a century ago there were celebrations in the streets at the start of WWI. Well, the realities of that war and the bigger one that followed killed any notions of the romance and glory of war. And that is the milieu in which we were all raised.
But not everybody in the world was raised in that same peace-and-prosperity-loving environment. Wishful thinking on the part of peaceniks won't make the war-lovers change their minds. It was only war on a colossal scale that changed the mind of the West. I fear the only thing that will change the minds of the Islamic fascists is to wreak death and carnage on them. That is my fear. I hope that I am wrong about this. Let us pray for peace. But let us not be blind to the lessons of history.
My challenge to my readers is to find an example of a regime determined to wage war that was
dissuaded by diplomacy.
posted by Rich @ 09:14
1 Comments:
At 7:46 PM,
Rich said…
I don't think the US being involved in Iraq and Afghanistan had anything to do with Israel and the "Palestinians" going at it. They've been going at it off and on since 1948.
What is laughable is the solemn talk about the "peace process" in the middle east. What good are talks and UN resolutions when you're dealing with one side that makes no bones about wanting to annihilate the other. I said at the time (6 years ago) that it was a mistake for Israel to pull out of Lebanon. But Israel did it, complying with the UN resolution, because they wanted peace. Hezbollah did not disarm at that time because they've never backed off their goal of destroying Israel, er, I mean "the Zionist entity." I said it was a mistake for Israel to pull out of the Gaza strip, which the "Palestinians" had always used to stage terrorist raids into Israel. But Israel did it, complying with the UN resolution, because they wanted peace. In both cases they got neither peace nor credit with the international community for complying.
Again, I'm sorry to say it, but the only peace process in this case is war. There will be peace in the middle east when one side destroys the other sides ability to make war. I was hoping that would happen in south Lebanon, but Olmert showed that his desire for peace has made him blind to the reality of the threat posed by the Islamic Fascists.
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