Security
conscious Americans entrust the most vital security task of all to amateurs
By Don
Hank
Americans
are funny critters. Many of us are very fussy about safety, as we should be. Most
of us are careful to avoid smoking and excessive drinking; we get our exercise,
watch our diet, get our check ups, etc, When it comes to our homes, very few of
us would leave home with the door unlocked. Most want good fire protection and
police services in their neighborhoods and many will organize neighborhood
watches to protect themselves from crime and drugs. And we watch our kids to
make sure they are doing their homework, not falling into drugs, etc.
Yet,
irony of ironies, when it comes to our nation's foreign policy, which
should stand between us and wars that can get us literally blown up or
trigger a nuclear winter, our attitude is often as follows:
Our
nation is wicked and deserves to be punished. So if God wants to punish us,
there is nothing we can do about it.
So
don't lock your door tonight. Prove that God loves and protects you.
No,
of course they won't do that. But foreign policy is something they don't know
the first thing about so that must be left up to God. This is reflected by the
kind of questions asked of our candidates. Almost no one asked them about how a
war with Russia and China can be avoided, even now that Russia has taken charge
of the Syrian conflict. No one has mentioned the plight of Syrian Christians,
who almost all are praying daily that Putin, and not the US, will
prevail. Why? Hardly anyone one in the US knows or cares. When if comes to
starting wars, it’s our business. But when if comes to keeping foreign
Christians safe, that’s God’s job.
Why
don't we care what candidates will do about this desperate situation of Syrian
Christians?
Why
did so many candidates state on public TV recently that they would like to shoot
down Russian planes in Syria and why did so many TV viewers sit there and say
nothing or even question the wisdom of such an overt act of war? Why did we not
care that we might see a nuclear holocaust in the next 4 years as a result of
our belligerent and ethnocentric foreign policy? Do they really think foreign
policy is a football game? The NH primaries reflect our almost total
insouciance toward foreign policy and the threat of war. John Kasich managed to
garner second place in the voting and yet he had said some very reckless things
about how he would treat Russia without even attempting an explanation. Here, for example, he has
said that he wants to confront Putin.
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