Welcome to “The Land of Let’s Pretend!”
May 6, 2006
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I remember a Saturday Radio program that was one of my favorites in the first grade, which I believe was sponsored by the Cream of Wheat Company. It was called “The Land of Let’s Pretend.” It always seemed to involve fairy tales that ended with the scenario of “they all lived happily after.”
It is very hard to put away that scenario and face the realities of true life on a planet that has always been directed by national interest since the first nations came into being.
It is difficult to put away childish things, but Korea and Vietnam shocked me into the realities of the world as it existed, not as I wish it existed. Some never seen to break the bounds of fairly tale endings, and actually believe the intrinsic goodness of man will overcome evil, and that he really does not have to fight to maintain his freedom. Such people actually believe we can bring our military forces home, stop having wars, let the rest of the world alone and, in so doing, “we will all live happily after” in the good old USA, and everybody will then leave us alone. How ironic that the very thing that produces wars is an appeasement to, and unwillingness to stand against, the evil nations of this planet.
Politicians long ago stopped doing what was right and started doing what the polls indicated would get them elected and/or keep them in office.
The present American nation interest is based on greed, which has caused “the faith” of our forefathers to be abandoned for a love
of money, rather than a love of principles, morality, country, freedom, and God.
We have cast God out of our schools, government, holidays, and all public places, which lost us great gain from his blessings on us as a nation.
I Timothy 6:6-10 – But godliness with contentment is great gain. [7] For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [8] And having food and raiment let us be therewith content. [9] But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. [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.
We are about to do down the drain as a mixture of confused groups fighting in disunion as a nation. While our men and women are in harms way across the globe we tell them they are fighting for God and country, but please don’t mention God’s name in the public places for which they are fighting. We still have courage in our military, but not
in our politicians.
Will politicians chang
e
? No! Will evil nations change? No! Will we bring our troops home and be afraid to send them back when Israel is attacked because of what happened in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and Iraq? Yes! Does appeasement work with evil nations
? No! Does diplomacy work with evil nations
? No! Is freedom kept by vigilance and blood
? Yes! Do the meek inherit this pre-Christ earth by appeasement? No!
I will never forget in this life the day that Hitler attacked Poland, and the day that the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor!
Begin Boston Globe Article
The Gathering Storm over Iran
Nile Gardiner and Joseph Loconte (Boston Globe)
In October 1938, in the heat of the crisis over German intervention in Czechoslovakia, Winston Churchill asked: ”Does anyone pretend that preparation for resistance to aggression is unleashing war?…I declare it to be the sole guarantee of peace.”
The Allies were not prepared to resist German aggression at that crucial moment. The result was a policy of appeasement – the infamous Munich Agreement – which abandoned Czechoslovakia into Nazi hands.
In the current standoff with Iran, the West is approaching what can fairly be described as another Munich moment.
An Islamo-fascist regime is apparently determined to acquire nuclear weapons, destroy Israel, and extend its radical ideology.
What should the U.S. do to avoid another Munich? If the Security Council fails to confront the Iranian threat, America must form an international coalition to disarm the regime, enforcing a range of targeted political and economic sanctions. It must place the potential use of force squarely on the table.
Nile Gardiner is a fellow at the Heritage Foundation and a former aide to Margaret Thatcher. Joseph Loconte is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy.
End Boston Globe Article
If we knock out the Iranian Nuclear facilities, will that stop the future Jihad against Israel? No!
Is there really anything that is going to change this planet and its many occupants from what it and they are like to what it and they should be like?
Yes, but most of the population of the planet thinks it is a fairy tale that will never happen!
It has a beginning! And I strongly suspect we are close to the beginning!
Zechariah 14:1-9 – Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. [2] For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
[3] Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. [4] And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. [5] And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with thee. [6] And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark: [7] But it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light. [8] And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be. [9] And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name
one.
And it has an ending, which is a little more than a thousand years away!
Revelation 21:1-6 – And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. [2] And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
[3] And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. [4] And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. [5] And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. [6] And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.
I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of
the water of life freely.
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