Re: Politics and the Church
ZNP>”Also, why is Russia pumping billions into Syria to fight against the US which is pumping billions to fight Syria? Why not just give millions in humanitarian aid and not fight at all? Surely they aren't fighting over control of Syria.”
ZNP,
Russia invaded Afghanistan to prop up a communist government facing insurgency. USA always at the ready to check Soviet expansion supplied arms to “freedom fighters” with an agenda of their own that consider both Russians and Americans as infidels. Of course controlling energy natural resources is an interest for all involved.
But that is not why the US, UK, and France bombed Assad’s chemical producing capabilities this weekend. They did it because he gassed his own people, including women and children, in a most horrendous way. He violated international law in place for a hundred years, showed himself to be a liar and deceiver concerning his commitment to rid his supply of those gasses and to never use them again, and revealed the true beast that he is. Syria has no oil, no natural gas, to speak of and we had just announced our intention to withdraw all combat forces from the country soon. Your Charlie War is not applicable when it comes to Syria... it is not about oil from the USA perspective. It is about taking decisive action and containing atrocious behavior, sending a message to the others who think like Assad, and a clear message that crossing lines, whether they have been explicitly drawn or not, will not be tolerated by this administration. There’s a new sheriff in town. These people do not respect humanitarian aid, peace negotiations, or the ideas in Lennon’s Imagine. They understand and respect force. Assad tested the international community’s resolve, miscalculated, and lost.
The raging battle is not the one we see on the surface. It is the spiritual one that is not so apparent. Israel is the object of that battle.
Drake
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