The President “Resets” the War On Terror?

The President has announced a wind-down of the war on terror. He says the al Qaeda is a shell of its former self; and he has inferred the war has been won. Who believes that—with al Qaeda making marked gains to control territory in north Africa, launching more deadly strikes in Iraq, killing American diplomatic personnel in Benghazi, controlling more and more of the insurgency in Syria, launching strikes against Pakistani and Afghan targets, and threatening Israel?!! All this is not to mention the enemies of Israel, Hezbollah and Hamas, attacking Israeli military over their own borders and raining down rockets on Israeli targets from Gaza and Lebanon. This war is winding down??

It seems obvious that the president is only conceding the battle to the enemy and wasting all the effort and cost Americans have paid to keep our nation and the rest of the free world free.

Foreign powers know perfectly well how to interpret the President’s words. Those words about protecting Americans against attack have exactly the same weight as his words about establishing a “red line” against the Syrian government if they were to use chemical weapons against their enemies—that is, absolutely nothing. The President is a toothless tiger. No enemy in their right mind will pay a bit of attention to his empty threats.

The primary and most important job of the Federal Government is to protect the American people. Our President and his administration is not doing that—he echoes the words of British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain in the early last century when he thought he had placated the Nazis in Germany. He announced “peace in our time;” that promise brought nothing but disaster on the free world.

Unfinished wars seem to be the pattern of policy in American government. Viet Nam was the first and now we are faced with another surrender to an aggressive enemy. America can do better than this!

 

How To Make a Blog

I know from correspondence with those who read my blog there are many of you who would be good bloggers. Establishing a blog is very easy; and it takes less than 60 seconds to do it. Here’s how:

Go to blogspot.com and just follow the directions. I less than an eyewink you will be on your way to posting blogs. Then, as you think of issues that interest you, write the posts that you would like to disseminate. Save every post you write so that you can refer to them in the future—sure enough, you will think later about the same issue and wonder if you every blogged on that issue. If you have all your posts in the same folder or on the same file, you will know whether you have blogged on that issue in the past.

Change your blog post twice weekly or more often; this keeps people interested in reading it. Make your blog posts short enough so that people can read it in less than two minutes. People will get bored and quit reading if you write a post that is too long.   

The next thing you need to do is get some people to read your blog. To do this, establish a sign-off statement on your e-mail that announces to everyone you write to that you have a blog and ask him or her to look at it. Create a business card for yourself with your blog url on it so that everyone you give a card to will know how to find your blog.

Next, establish a bunch of friends on Facebook and announce through that medium that you have a blog for them to examine. Now, speaking about Facebook, it is a good idea to post your blog posts on that social media site. You can do it by using the “notes” facility if the blog post is longer than the ordinary site for comments on FB. It is a good idea to post the title of your blog posts on Twitter also. You probably will not have enough characters on Twitter to post your entire url, so…go to the url shortener, “bitly” to shorten the url so that it can be used on Twitter.

Don’t just sit at home and wish you could get your ideas out in the culture. Put them on a blog so that others can use and appreciate them.  Undoubtedly, you will be blogging on issues about which you have learned by reading the papers or the internet. Be sure to reference your quotations, stating clearly where they came from and who wrote them originally. Do not plagiarize.

Blog, Twitter, and Facebook posts are a good way to tell people about your faith in Christ—that is just a suggestion of the many ideas you can spread around.