THINGS SEEM TO HAVE SHIFTED AROUND - for Just A Minute Radio -- Friday 111025

Once more we embark upon a tortuous journey into the land of ‘poor visibility.’ – Foggy Bottom.

 

It’s Autumn…but sometime back, someone in the West Wing thought it might win a few brownie points to call the President’s ‘Peace Offensive’ something classy like “Arab Spring.” It has a nice fairy-tale lilt to it – nothing ominous. Of course no one mentions these are wars in which the Nation is engaged. Men and women putting themselves in harms way to carry out the nebulous *ideas* of somebody up higher than the dog-faces in the foxholes or behind the walls.

 

Well… things go along… eventually people get restless. Arguments break out over whether or not pictures should be taken of bringing bodies – American flag draped coffins – back from overseas… from a war which nobody has bothered to ‘declare.’

 

Things go from bad to worse. The American Revolution lasted a much shorter time than these armed excursions into the part of the world dominated by the main marker on the globe of the Mediterranean Sea. In America we just don’t know a lot about Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan or… Libya… where’s that?  Most of us have never been there. The north shore of Africa you say?  No kidding…???

 

No… no kidding. Just ask the families whose sons or daughters have come back – some missing limbs, some missing blood… some missing life and breath. War tends to take those things away from some people.  Sad you say?  Indeed it is. But the world is full of sadness.

 

Well…that’s enough for today.  We’ll think about it… if we’re in communion with the Lord… we’ll pray about it.  We’ll all wish it was over and done with – but we’ll especially be … troubled… by those who have paid with life… Life which cannot be replaced.  That is the real cost of war.  It is found weighed in the balances of families, homes, happiness… and it always comes up wanting. The scales are never balanced – at least not in this world.

 

Pray for these whose families, friends, fond and precious memories are gone – shattered into a million bits that may only be restored to wholeness by Almighty God who created them in the first place. How *glad* we are that HE is just, and merciful and kind to those who belong to Him… His sheep in His pasture.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack Buttram

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THINGS SEEM TO HAVE SHIFTED AROUND

          Just a Minute: I’ve never claimed to be a foreign policy maven. I see no international relations expert steering American foreign policy either.  Our national influence wanes as radical Islamists take over at every international corner.

          Whatever happened to Arab Spring? The leaves are all falling off – it’s Arab Fall! Israel is our only true ally. They are under continuous threats by Arab neighbors. We look like we’re walking away from a problem in which we are involved in a big way.

          If anyone in that part of the world is taking on the stature of a force, it’s certainly not U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton -- and though Mr. Obama once called himself a “Citizen of the World at  Brandenburg Gate – he doesn’t seem to be leading a charge.

          Last night I saw Mrs. Clinton tittering on TV, describing the U.S. at the Libyan conclusion saying: “We came, we saw, he died.” Yeah… and so may we if America claims credit for murdering the murderer and cramming him half-naked in a supermarket meat locker? Which Ivy-League institution claims credit for that?

          <> I’m Jack Buttram.  (END)

         

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