OBAMA - A False Agent of Inspiration
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Barack Obama and fans...
Everyone is saying how 'inspirational' Obama is...but on the abortion
issue alone he will set the country back 30 years if his belief on that
subject becomes common consensus amongst America's youth.
This is something that the Nation needs to seriously think about.
Read: Looking for Wise Men
As far as Iraq is concerned...he's already made the mistake of
announcing to the extremists what he would do if he becomes President
which means they are probably laying back right now until the American
election is over to see if Barack is seated and once they think our
resolve is broken they will seize control in Iraq, with probable help
from the Iranians.
Experience has shown us in situations like Iraq that leaders simply can't say in advance that they plan to withdraw or retreat.
In Viet Nam we got public with the Vietnamization Program and with the
Paris Peace Accords and the North Vietnamese simply laid back and
waited until they figured our resolve was broken and then rolled their
armor down Highway 1 and took Saigon, resulting in a rout of South
Vietnamese forces, an embarrassing exodus of Americans from atop the
American Embassy in Saigon and a huge humanitarian crisis as
tens-of-thousands of South Vietnamese fled their country by boat.
And the humanitarian crisis went on for years and years and years.
The economic impact of an abrupt withdrawl from Iraq...would mean that
we would stand to lose everything we have invested in the future of
that country so far. We would also have to absorb the cost of any
humanitarian crisis that would result from such an action and
terrorists would certainly infiltrate the refugees and follow them home
to us in the United States.
What then is the alternative?
Stay-the-course and try to make the best out of a bad situation.
If we retreat, we lose everything. If we stay and try to see things
through to the bitter end, well, maybe things just might work out for
us in the end.
What I do fear is that we are headed for an end-time Babylonian-style
captivity in Iraq that will last for many, many years. It will be a
situation where we neither progress nor retreat. I think we've already
begun to see some of this.
Despite all the gloom and doom over Iraq, I do feel that we have a
moral obligation to stay, if only to help the Iraqi people avoid a more
severe humanitarian crisis than what they've already been subjected to.
In the meantime, we have to figure out a way to escape the mess we've
made for ourselves in Iraq and do it in a humanitarian way.
'Escape', however, cannot include the word 'retreat'.
I also believe that success in Iraq will be 'a matter of the heart' and
God will judge us in the end according to our good intentions, and our
deeds.
But, keep in mind that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Our first obligation is to keep things together at home (charity begins
at home), and what Barack Obama advocates is clearly not the way
America should be going at home.
A retreat in Iraq or a retreat in spiritual matters, especially with
something so important as abortion, is not the way for America to go.
These are two great reasons why I continue to support John McCain.
I continue to be convinced that John McCain is America's best hope for a promising future despite all the shortcomings of the current Republican Administration.
By James Carder
An Oregon Democrat for John McCain
The Chilkoot Homsite at Blogger
