29-30 January 2007

Well, well, well. Just like it always goes, we're in the tragic race for war. Iran works with North Korea to build missiles and test them, missiles capable of carrying long-range nuclear warheads. We're not talking about Israel now, we're talking about Europe, at least. Unbelievable. At the same time Iran and Venezuela (last week) agreed to ally themselves in a military alliance against the USA. And the number of Iranian agents and equipment to support the insurgents in Iraq, especially Moqtada al Sadr, are rapidly growing.

Meanwhile, the USA, particularly the Bush administration and the Defense Department, have some actions of their own. Not only is Bush pursuing the "surge" of an additional 21,500 troops in Baghdad and 4,000 more in violent Al-Anbar province, the Pentagon (reported in Reuters) announced that they should be completed with the ground and sea-borne portion of the development and deployment of the Strategic Defense Initiative. According to the article, the US will be able to strike at long-range missiles from "North Korea and the Middle East." Now who in the Mideast could possibly be the subject of this fast ratcheting up of America's defense? Yeah, and who could need to guess about that, unless that person doing the guessing has been living under a rock for the last 18 months. Don't look now, but his initials are Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

I take comfort in my faith, that God has everything under control. But it is clear that the principle of warfare is being exhibited once again, that the strike will happen just before one's opponent has completed their preparations to wage defensive or offensive warfare.

Tick, tock. Meanwhile, fellow Americans and Christians like those of my now-former church are content to hide their pacifist heads in the sand and consider their President a warmonger, hoping against reason that the US will simply begin negotiating in earnest with the terrorist regime in Tehran. Face it, boys and girls. You're going to have a war. Do you want to get loyal? Or are you going to be in denial until the day that Al Qaeda comes to call to your city?

Tick, tock, tick, tock.

Adios.


---Belisarius II---