CRYING 'FIRE' IN A CROWDED THEATRE -- Just A Minute Radio for Friday 120914

Well, we’re working our way is through to the end of the week. Seems like this week has been longer than most.

 

Four-star general, and former Director of the CIA Michael Hayden had an exclusive interview with Newsmax TV on Wednesday. They discussed events in Libya and Gen. Hayden said: “I’m reminded of Secretary of State Powell’s comments about Iraq … : it’s the Pottery Barn theory – “if you break it you own it !”

 

The idea is if you rush into an area willy-nilly you’re liable to and up with more hornets and bees buzzing around than you thought possible. That’s what’s happening in the Middle East these days. Gen. Hayden was trying to remind Pres. Obama that it was not wise to rush in to the Middle East and say so many things that you were not sure how it would come out. This week we found out the beginning of how they would come out.

 

The Middle East with Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria and all those places is really a fragile tender box. With all the crosscurrents and animosities it’s like picking your way through a room full of porcupines.

 

Egypt and Libya are two of the offenders right now and Libya has been the hotbed that killed the American ambassador in Libya Chris Stevens in a safe house refuge in Benghazi. From all the crowds and smoke and fireworks I saw near our embassy in Cairo last night on TV last night it looks like we’re in a war already. We certainly have nations at odds with each other as well as at odds with us and there’s no quick way out.

 

The State Department under Pres. Obama is so confused and uncertain about what to say it’s hard to know what the situation is in Egypt and Libya. We already have four American casualties. It appears that possibly the strike against Egypt and Libya was a way to get back at the USA for being so hard on the attackers of September 9-11. However, having over 3000 people killed on that day is no small problem. It demands America stand up and make sure no one does that to us again. Now we’ve added four more people to account for. This is how American affairs become so entangled in a very short time and we’re seeing it happen before our eyes.

 

How do we get out of a mess like this? Christians know the best road out is trusting the Lord, not in our own wisdom. This world is not our home as Christians to use the old hymn words “we’re just a-passing through.” Let us keep that in mind as we travel the road on these difficult days when danger looms all about-- we must know our trust needs to be only in the Lord.

 

Have a great weekend.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack & Barbara

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“JUST A MINUTE”

CRYING ‘FIRE’ IN A CROWDED THEATRE

            Just a Minute: In an exclusive interview with Newsmax.TV on Wednesday, former CIA Director and 4-star General Michael Hayden, discussed events in Libya saying:  “I’m reminded of Secretary of State Powell’s comments about Iraq going back almost a decade: It’s the Pottery Barn theory --  if you break it you own it.”
                        Hayden has cautioned higher ups when it comes to the Middle East,  and particularly Libya, one has to be careful what is said or intimated in such a fragile and inflammatory section of the world.

            It’s now evident the violent protests in Libya and Egypt that claimed the life of the Ambassador Stevens, and three other Americans who died after Islamist gunmen attacked the U.S. consulate and a safe house refuge in Benghazi on Tuesday night --  were in large measure the result of President Obama’s decision to intervene in Libya.             Hayden, was appointed CIA director by President George W. Bush in 2006 and served until 2009. He made no secret the information was available should have been obvious to President Obama in his speeches and attitudes expressed internationally.

                        <> I’m Jack Buttram.

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