For lack of guidance a nation falls,
but many advisers make victory sure.
– Proverbs 11:14
I’ve been listening to the news; how about you? Once again crazy things are going on and evil is busy. Of course I’m referring to the latest insanity in the Middle East, where all of a sudden our (US) embassies appear to be targets of mobs with murder in their hearts.
We are supposed to believe that they are incensed by a movie that nobody ever heard of that is a couple of years old… and they just happened to pick September 11 to spontaneously erupt into violence and murder. Our leaders respond strongly, demanding justice and issuing apologies…
So, now we see the fruit of the glorious “Arab Spring” that our great leader has taken credit for.
I really rather doubt that anyone who isn’t a politician will buy the movie excuse for this outrageous behavior, and I also doubt that very many will be surprised at how all of this “Arab Spring” business has turned out; only a politician is so easily tricked… or were they?
I only know one thing for sure: It is perfectly all right to be outraged when something outrageous happens. I am only noticing outrage from the “regular folks” however, where are our great and magnificent leaders? Playing golf I would imagine.
Boy, I don’t know about you, but I’m sure glad that I’ve placed my hopes in a more reliable place than in this crazy world!
Maybe those in power ought to go out and ask the folks how to respond to these crazies; they’d surely get better advice.
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While I in no way condone or think it acceptable what has bee done in Egypt or Libya, I should note that there have been some very good responses to this action. On the one hand there are literally hundreds of photos of different people in Libya apologizing to the US or Americans there (and the same in Egypt). Further, the President did say the he remains committed to diplomacy in Libya, but that “those who perpetrated this act of violence must be brought to justice, and Justice *will* be done.” (his emphasis). I don’t particularly care for politicians of either stripe, but to suggest that they made little to no response, or that they were not outraged is just disingenuous.
You may be right; perhaps that gentleman was outraged. It’s certainly possible, but with whom? I couldn’t help but notice that he, in the same statement, condemned those Americans who were involved in creating the film that is being used as an excuse for the attacks, who were exercising a Constitutional right of free speech and freedom of expression to voice their opinion. “Disingenuous” is the very word that came to mind when I heard him make the statement. This is hardly a good time for mixed messages, or so it would seem to me.