In trying to figure out why Bush is in such an incredible hurry to get Iraq or even to get it at all, a huge number of theories have been put forth. We know what they are. Divert attention from a failing economic, wag the dog, prove GW isn't a wimp, revenge, protect Israel, oil, etc. But we know that Israel can take care of itself, right? Didn't they take out Iraq's nuclear reactors, unilaterally and without anybody?s approval except for maybe ours.
Well none of these reasons are fully satisfying, in the sense that Bush is either a pathetic politician, saying we are going to attack before having his ducks all in a row. He has been backpedaling ever sense. First it's I don't need Congress, then it's I don?t need the UN. But political reality soon set in. The insanity of attacking Iraq for no explainable answer was too big a hurdle to jump even for Bush who would be happy with a dictator so long as it was him. His popularity and credibility have been damaged only to be reversed by, for going to the Congress and the UN. What is at stake here that would cause him to expend such capital. I believe that he still intends to ruin the credibility of the US as a nation of justice by violating international law as the world sees it and attacking another nation first. Why?
Well in reading another post involving Israel I began to look at it in context, a tiny Jewish state carved by Western power out of Arab land, at least recently. I don't know the Jewish population of Israel but there are a billion + Moslems and many many more millions of Arabs than Jews surrounding it. Doesn't look too good for a nation whose only method of dealing with it's problems is grinding force. The long term prognosis, it seems obvious is that Israel will be destroyed. He who lives by the sword dies by it. In order to secure it's existence Israel has committed grave injustice against another people of the Book. For the sake of themselves they took from the other. In doing so they radicalized the other and created their own self justification thereby. It is the will of God, I hear.
And that is my question. Are we going to attack Iraq because the Bush administration is full of fundamentalist Christians whose real allegiance is not to the US but to a higher power? It occurred to me that Israel will fail in the course of time under present trends. Is that contrary to Biblical prophesy and are we getting involved to make sure the Bible isn't wrong, or surely as some might think because it's God's will? I get the feeling the administration might not want to announce that fact if it were the case. What does the Bible predict about the future. I don't know much about it.
Well none of these reasons are fully satisfying, in the sense that Bush is either a pathetic politician, saying we are going to attack before having his ducks all in a row. He has been backpedaling ever sense. First it's I don't need Congress, then it's I don?t need the UN. But political reality soon set in. The insanity of attacking Iraq for no explainable answer was too big a hurdle to jump even for Bush who would be happy with a dictator so long as it was him. His popularity and credibility have been damaged only to be reversed by, for going to the Congress and the UN. What is at stake here that would cause him to expend such capital. I believe that he still intends to ruin the credibility of the US as a nation of justice by violating international law as the world sees it and attacking another nation first. Why?
Well in reading another post involving Israel I began to look at it in context, a tiny Jewish state carved by Western power out of Arab land, at least recently. I don't know the Jewish population of Israel but there are a billion + Moslems and many many more millions of Arabs than Jews surrounding it. Doesn't look too good for a nation whose only method of dealing with it's problems is grinding force. The long term prognosis, it seems obvious is that Israel will be destroyed. He who lives by the sword dies by it. In order to secure it's existence Israel has committed grave injustice against another people of the Book. For the sake of themselves they took from the other. In doing so they radicalized the other and created their own self justification thereby. It is the will of God, I hear.
And that is my question. Are we going to attack Iraq because the Bush administration is full of fundamentalist Christians whose real allegiance is not to the US but to a higher power? It occurred to me that Israel will fail in the course of time under present trends. Is that contrary to Biblical prophesy and are we getting involved to make sure the Bible isn't wrong, or surely as some might think because it's God's will? I get the feeling the administration might not want to announce that fact if it were the case. What does the Bible predict about the future. I don't know much about it.
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