Addendum to Bacevich

INTRODUCTION AND WARNINGS
Thoughts on life in America and life in the Lord's Church

Andrew J. Bacevich failed to identify the new adversary, at least in the chapters presented at TomDispatch.com.

The adversary, the boogie man, ceased to be the Soviet Union in about 1990. To launch serious war against the old USSR, from about 1947 to 1990, would have been suicide, or at least very costly. It would have meant to bring war to our own back yard. After the fall of Socialism, a new boogie man appeared, and this adversary did not have nearly the punch of the Soviets.

Enter sacred rage, jihad, the sons of Allah. Enter the spoiler who does not believe in the American ideal of democracy, nor does this spoiler believe that the secular consensus is important. This spoiler believes that Allah must rule the world, and anyone who stands in the way must die. What a nasty surprise after dealing with the rather pragmatic Soviets.

Many of us suspected, from as far back as the late 1950s, that the Soviet boogie man was a set up. We wondered if the Russian leaders knew the rules of engagement, and everyone played a role. The world was thus enriched by the arms race to get ahead of one another, "so they won't get us." Well, Ishmael, the Islamic hate league, is not role playing. They believe, from the depths of their soul, that Allah calls them to die, if need be, to destroy the Kaffir, the Great Satan. All restraint is suspended. Any form of massacre and death is holy, even if the attackers only manage to kill themselves.

So, Wallah, the USA now has an enemy which it can define as the ultimate, the unrestrained, the absolutely committed enemy. Since the sons of Allah have no restraint, and their death making events have born this out, then why should we have any restraint? Furthermore; every time we thrash the Islamic perverts, we end up taking charge of a piece of the oil estate.

War, as America is practicing it, is a response to religious zeal. Ultimately, the Islamic adversary does not have the force to enter our back yard with their attacks, as the Soviet Union could have. 9/11 was an exception, not the rule. The war with Islam is waged far away, so the average American, and you right wing Fundamentalist preachers, can wave the flag and scream for the blood of "them sand niggers," and it will never come home to you or endanger your way of life. What a neat and tidy empire we are building, and the blood flies "over there."

President George Bush told us that God gave him a charge to keep, that is, to spread Democracy world wide. Here is a line from Desert Storm which I memorized from George H. Bush, father of our Napoleonic empire:

Do you see anything moral in that statement? There is none. The point is, in the words of Tennessee Ernie Ford....

Teddy Roosevelt developed the first real international war based foreign policy, NOT Woodrow Wilson. Wilson resisted international war making at first. Later, he was converted as the USA was attacked by a very stupid German submarine fleet that was on a binge to sink anyone's ships for the sheer fun of it. The reason Wilson's war making takes the lime light, and is being repeated today, is because Wilson, once converted, became a maniac for world power, and the military was the engine to make it so. Wilson, once converted, knew no restraint.

Teddy Roosevelt, before Wilson, had a similar but infinitely more conscientious foreign policy, "Speak softy, and carry a big stick." Indeed, Teddy was a genuine peace maker, for he made peace between the Russians and the Japanese. The world feared the US Navy, Teddy's big stick, but they also respected Teddy because he DID speak softly. Our State Department does NOT speak softly. Even the alleged lady, Chorizo Rice, is a female pretender with a manly mouth. There is no respect in the world for our diplomacy, only fear and hate. We do not have one diplomat today, even on the diddle head level of Henry Kissinger, who tries to make a pretext of peace making.

Thus, the sons of Allah have gained much ground psychologically. They are not only the underdog in the contest with the USA, they are seen as the persecuted faithful by fellow Muslims around the world. One billion people tend to cheer for the adversary of the USA. Furthermore, it is VERY clear that we really do not want the top dog dead or caught. Osama bin Laden, whom we invented and trained, has been left to run loose so that the adversary will have its Emperor in place for the escalation of hostilities which are needed to justify bigger and more frequent wars.

You must understand this-- America is at war with Mecca. Mecca ought to lose, if fire power and numbers were the issue, but the real issue is, who will stay to pray? It is real easy to see which forces have the spiritual advantage. Islam.

Answer: America is not a Christian nation. America has rejected God. America has decided that God belongs in brick and crystal palaces, not on the street, and especially not on the front lines in a war. On the streets of America we kill unborn babies, we exalt effeminate pansies, our music calls for suicide and murder, our middle level bureaucracy has a kilo of crack in their golf bag, and God is good for nothing more than a tax deduction on our 1040. Not so with Islam my friend.

America will lose in the end. In this war of attrition, as George Bush has aptly portrayed it, we will lose. We cannot stand up spiritually, as a nation, and say, "God is on our side."

Answer: America has told God to go to hell. God is NOT on our side. The lip service given to God by Bush, and a handful of milque toast pabulum sucking state department officials and Congressmen, is nothing but rhetoric designed to call Bible believing suckers up into their Sunday pulpits to beat the war drums.

George Patton's prayer is in the Patton museum at Fort Knox, Kentucky. I give it as best I can from memory:

Will you be a fool sucker and follow onward in this historically suicidal war mongering when Napoleon calls on the bishops to bless the next crusade?

Think about the empires that have tried to subdue the Middle East. They all had to give up the cause, and Greece, Rome, and Persia, as well as the Turks, learned that the Middle East was a costly and terminal ball and chain in the end. Now, think of the place America has in Bible prophecy-- NONE. Why join the death party?

2 Peter 2:20 (KJV) For if after they have escaped the pollutions
of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter
end is worse with them than the beginning.

"Fruit springs out of death. Selfishness is always solitary. It is the lives poured our in sacrifice that abound in blessing. The way of conquest is the way of the Cross. The names that are honored in history are the names that stand over graves where self was buried, long before the body died."
Charles Cowman
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The Baptist preacher tells you that John the Baptist founded the Baptist movement. Well, what did John say? The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him and saith,

"Follow me, and I will follow Jesus..."

I don't think so.

Let the mighty young men come and finish the battle,
Scale the walls of the fortress of Satan,
Pull down the stronghold of unbelief;
And, I pray that God will allow that....

When the victors come to those ominous walls,
They will find this dreamer, this lonely soldier,
Has been there before them, and
Though mortally wounded, fallen by the wall,
In the heat of the battle,
He has been busy,
Leading captivity captive.

DO YOU CRAVE A SCREAMING HACKING
BAPTIST OR PENTECOSTAL PREACHER?

BEWARE
Samuel Pearce was in his own day well known for the anointing that attended his preaching and the depth of his spirituality. It was said of him that "his ardour ... gave him a kind of ubiquity; as a man and a preacher, he was known, he was felt everywhere." William Jay (1769-1853), who exercised an influential ministry in Bath for the first half of the nineteenth century, said of Pearce's preaching: "When I have endeavoured to form an image of our Lord as a preacher, Pearce has oftener presented himself to my mind than any other I have been acquainted with." He had, Jay went on, a "mildness and tenderness" in his style of preaching, and a "peculiar unction."
The mighty warriors of history were not big mouthed fools, like some Fundamental Baptists. These modern preachers wail and scream into the microphone until our ears ring in pain. They tell jokes and use themselves as sermon illustrations. We have no need of them. They make mockery of the quiet spirit we see in Jesus Christ in the Gospels. When Jesus raised his voice it was in the temple in the face of blasphemous desecration of the temple. When with sheep, Jesus spoke quietly and gently. Today, the alleged warrior preacher screams in the church house at sheep, and in the market place, or in the counterfeit religion venue, he is timid as a mouse.
What is needed today is a spiritual warrior who is so powerful in the Holy Ghost that he can be gentle, yet all present know that God has visited them in the gifts of the Spirit. The very fact that preachers holler and scream and hack PROVES they do not have the "peculiar unction" of the Holy Ghost."

A WORD OF CAUTION: