THE LESSONS ARE RIGHT IN FRONT OF OUR EYES!

THE LESSONS ARE RIGHT IN FRONT OF OUR EYES!

(Huffington Post, Washington Post)

(New York Times, Aljazeera, Adam Roberts)

(Calvin Allen, Nick Bunkley, Frazer Chronicle)

 

As with most educational situations, if you take the time to look, people can self-educate themselves with little effort, and will experience far less hurt and pain during the process. It’s almost our Achilles heel, the inability to learn either from current issues or from history. Why this is I do not know…..but be assured, this inability to learn from current events and issues around us could be are undoing!

 

There are those that believe that our end is near, my Mother did, that the trouble in the Middle East is just prefaces’ that have been predicted, and now are coming to pass. I do not have a clue regarding religious passages, scripture, and the teachings of God; I simply live my life from day to day…..and try and not hurt people or do wrong things.

 

In this pursuit of what I call my Godliness I try to conduct myself as a fair, honest, and the best person that I can be. Sometimes I fail miserably, I fail, fall down, overindulge and treat people in a manner that I wouldn’t want to be treated. My practice of Godliness is personal and is not for public consumption, I was taught by my mother that religion was a private matter between me…..and my maker.

 

What we have today in the world surely can’t be called Godliness, but surprise, surprise; many confrontations today are called “wars of oppression, attrition, or taking back what was once taken”.  Wars of almost genocidal cleansing are waged somewhere in the world on a daily basis. I understand the action of witnessing and how witnessing is taught in the Bible, and how a true Christian needs to witness.

 

There is one book in the Bible that many Christians across the globe seldom read, seldom referee to and do not use. It’s the book of Revelations, also known as Revelation of the Apocalypse, and lists, through its passages, the events that will befall the earth during the time of the great rapture. It depicts the end of the world…..as we know it.

 

We have had other lessons regarding our foreign policy strategies, and how many have fallen on hard times, and total failure. Yet we continue in our attitude of pomp, pageantry, and arrogance, we make demands, and back them up with stealth military maneuvers, and either cease financial aid or cut back so that the action results we seek are met.

 

WE NOW FIND OURSELVES WITH ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY

Egypt is exploding in what can be called a civil war; the military in the country has effectively kicked out the country’s first democratically elected leader…..President Mohammed Morsi. The United States has refused so far to call the skirmish what it really is, a military lead coup…..the reason, money.

 

If the Egypt violence were called what it really is, the United States military industrial complex could lose, or have to suspend $1.3 billion in annual military aid to the strategically important nation, a move top U.S. officials say would not “be in the best interests of the United States”.

 

As the body count continues to grow, and as violence continues to escalate, the chance for the United States to become a meaningful partner in Egypt may quickly be passing by. To do the right thing for the situation and for the American people is like a train at the station, ready to leave, but still taking passengers.

 

The violent clashes that have broken out across the country are possibly just the beginnings of what might fall into full fledged confrontations. The five or six hundred that have lost their lives during the course of the attacks might be just the beginning.

 

THE CALDRON THAT THE MIDDLE EAST IS

The Middle East has been, and is, a hot spot of controversy spurred on by a multitude of differences, practices and religions. Made up of Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.

 

There are twelve different dialects spoken, of course the region is diverse in its religious faiths, Islam and its many forms is the largest in the region, but Judaism and Christianity are practiced as well.  There also is the Baha’i, Yazadinism, Zoroastrianism, Mandeanism, Druze, Yardism, and Shahakism.

 

To say that the Middle East is a melting pot for religions would be understating the obvious, and to figure that there wouldn’t be problems associated with such diversification you would probably reside on Mars. Many religions of the world can trace their roots to the area, and the nomadic that roam the countries fiercely protect their religious heritage.

 

Cooler heads seemingly need to intervene between the military and former President Mohamed Morsi before there is a full blown military conflict. More blood will be spilled, and the senseless killing will continue.

 

Military coups are never the answer, these military people are not diplomats, or politicians, and without much doubt, a military take-over of a country’s political process seems to be doomed by failure. Brotherhoods, in this case, the Muslim Brotherhood, usually do poorly in resolving differences of any kind.

 

Probably the best action that could be taken by outside sources would be…..no action what-so-ever, but that inaction is usually never observed. For all the complex issues that I am sure face the Middle East, there is one underlying truth that nobody can ignore, outside forces will continue to monitor the action, and jockey for the best position when the smoke dissipates.

 

Too bad, since the Book of Revelations sites the final battles of the infidels will take place in the area that is called the Middle East. To bad if we don’t heed the lessons that are right in front of our eyes.

 

HAVE A NICE DAY!