Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better!
August 26, 2007
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In the history of m an he has always looked for
an ultimate weapon,
anything which would allow him to destroy his enemies with a bare minimum of harm to himself.
There have been many great ultimate weapons developed after the discovery of gunpowder and the first cannons, but from World War II to the present there seem to have been more appearing than at any time in history.
China, Russia, France, Great Britain, and the United States crank out new major and minor weapons of varying destructive power constantly, and while they are doing it they crank out weapons that can knock out the weapons they have created. I have watched this vicious never ending cycle of terror for more than 60 years. It is now awakening with a vengeance among the Big Five, both for security and attack, but the major force behind it is the root of all evil, which causes men and nations to seek strategic power through the accumulation of more and more money.
There cannot be a solution to the basic problem of man’s carnality until Jesus Christ returns.
I have watched the philosophy of this generation of diplomats on a path of insanity, believing that if we help the “bad guys” develop a prosperous economy, to the extent they have all that we have, they will become “good guys.” The basic carnal nature of all men is the idolatrous nature of covetousness, which is the craving desire to add more on top of the pile he already has, no matter how tall it grows. He worships the God of this world’s favorite drawing card, which is mammon, and it becomes the idol of his life he worships and loves as his god.
I Timothy 6:10 – For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Colossians 3:5b,6 – And covetousness, which is idolatry: [6] For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:
I Thessalonians 5:9 – For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
Exodus 20:3 – Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Luke 16:13 – No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other.
Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
The Jerusalem Post Article, which follows, is an example of the weapon, anti-weapon, new weapon, new anti-weapon, etc, etc, etc., which will never end until Messiah comes to end the final battle of Armageddon.
Begin Jerusalem Post Article
Fearing Syrian missile onslaught, IDF boosts Arrow defenses in North
Yaakov Katz, THE JERUSALEM POST
August 23, 2007
Predicting that Israel’s future wars will be characterized by unprecedented missile barrages, the IDF has decided to modify its missile defense doctrine and has changed its deployment of the Arrow missile in northern Israel, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
The changes to the Air Defense Forces’ doctrine have been made over recent months amid rising and falling concerns over war with Syria, and as a result of lessons learned from the Second Lebanon War, during which some 4,000 missiles and rockets pounded the North.
“Our assumption is that the next war will be characterized by missile onslaughts, and lots of them,” a high-ranking officer told the Post. “We can tell from the way our ‘neighbors’ are training that this is what they are planning and that we can expect a repeat of what happened during the Second Lebanon War.”
Until now, the Arrow has been deployed in the Palmahim Air Force Base, as well as at an undisclosed site in northern Israel. The “thin deployment,” as it was called, was implemented when the Arrow became fully operational in 2000 and when the doctrine was still based on the threat of Saddam Hussein’s Scud missiles from the first Gulf War.
Defense officials claim that the Arrow missile is capable of intercepting all of the operational ballistic missiles in Iran and Syria.
Following this past summer’s war and the recognition that the next war will involve Syrian and Iranian missile barrages, the Air Defense Forces decided to adopt a “wide deployment” for its Arrow missile batteries.
Ahead of a possible conflict with Syria and Iran, the Air Defense Forces are also conducting an increased number of joint exercises with the United States Armed Forces, in an effort to increase coordination between the two countries and to prepare for the possibility that Washington will send US missile defense systems to Israel if and when they are needed.
The Defense Ministry recently submitted a request to the Pentagon to receive information on two American-made missile defense systems – the Terminal High Altitude Air Defense (THAAD) and the Aegis.
The idea, a top officer explained, was to prepare infrastructure for the possibility that the American systems would be purchased by Israel or be deployed here during the time of war. In March, US Army officers from the European Command (EUCOM) were in Israel for the Juniper Cobra exercise, held every two years, during which Israel and the US run missile defense simulations.
“Our objective is to create the infrastructure and ensure that the Arrow will be interoperable with other systems,” the officer explained, adding that this objective took up a large portion of the Air Defense Forces’ training time.
To better prepare troops for potential barrages of missiles in a future conflict, head of the Air Defense Forces Brig.-Gen. Daniel Milo has brought in former officers who served on Patriot batteries during the First Gulf War to address young troops, sharing their experiences of intercepting missiles.
“We need to prepare them mentally for the barrages,” explained the officer.
“We need to train with the systems to make sure that they are operational and to prepare the soldiers for the possibility that they will be facing dozens of missiles heading toward Israel.”
A newer model of the Arrow missile – called the Arrow 3 – is currently under development, and when operational will serve as a higher altitude interception system than the Arrow missile currently in IAF service. In addition, the IAF plans to invest millions of dollars in upgrading its Patriot missile system to be able to accommodate the advanced PAC-3, which will serve as a third layer of defense at altitudes lower than those covered by the two Arrow systems.
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