Creating Enemies

April 5, 2008

Our military doesn’t talk about or release death figures when we go to war- other than how many we have sustained. The reason? If we knew the results and potential consequesnces of what WAR was producing, we’d not want war. If there’s ever a truism, it’s that in a war NO ONE WINS! Worst of all we just create more enemies for us all.

For a Christain nation that pretends to follow a WIN-WIN philosophy, we are winding up with more of a LOSE-LOSE mentality.

Here’s “us and them” the facts:

1-They killed 2,800 of us (9-11)
2-We killed 800,000 of them
3-They killed 4,000 of us (50,000+ wounded).

And how’s that all working out for our world, Dr. Phil?

There was a reason that the Israelites thought that God told them to kill every Canaan man, woman and child (God didn’t- it was their rationalization for doing so). For every man or woman that was killed there were cons, daughters and relatives that now hated the Israelites. They knew that unless they killed the children, the children would one day be looking to kill them.

It’s just how it works.

So, are we SAFER now? You’ve heard the argument.

My answer is NO! Multiple by 5 or 10 the 800,000 we’ve killed and we’ve now created something like 5-10,000,000 people who are looking to get revenge against us. Right after 9-11 the world was on our side. The world had our sympathies. The world mourned with us. Five years later the world despises us and we have much more than ten million new enemies. Muqtada al-Sadr needs to learn the lesson as well.

When will we wake up and drink the Starbucks?

How long will it take us to realize that you can’t FORCE a democracy on a nation of people who believe in a theocracy, not a democracy. If we pull out now, Iraq will return to a theocracy. If we pull out in five years, Iraq qill return to a theocracy. So, how many more lives, how many more enemies will we create in our arrogant thinking that the rest of the world should LIVE and THINK like we do? Only by living graciously can we expect to find a better world.

It’s not working! And worst of all, we’re creating more and more future enemies. And advertising the conversion of one Muslim only enrages them more. Why did the Pope need to do a public “in your face” ceremony anyway?

Written by Ernie · Filed Under Daily Commentary