Posts Tagged ‘Foreign Policy’
Radio Lux Lucet Ep.30: Happy New Year 2020: a Look Back and a Look Ahead
Posted in Radio Lux Lucet, tagged 2020 Presidential Campaign, Antichrist, Babylonian Harlot, Dispensationalism, Feminism, Foreign Policy, Israel Lobby, Roman Catholicism, Roman Church-State, Zionism on January 1, 2020| 5 Comments »
2018: the Year in Review and a Look Ahead
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Donald Trump Impeachment, Financial Crisis, Foreign Policy, Immigration, Year In Review on January 6, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Better late than never, or so goes the old saying. I’d hoped to get this 2018 wrap up posted last week but, as usual, my ambition was greater than my reach. But late or not, it still seems good to me to take a little time and reflect on the year in blogging that was as well as to look ahead to 2019.
As always, I’d like to give a big thank you to my readers and commenters. It has been my prayer that you’ve found the work on this blog edifying in your Christian walk. We live in an age where it seems that almost everything is fake. But the words of Jesus Christ and the words of all Scripture are as real and true today as when they first were written down so long ago. It has been my endeavor to apply those words to the events of our own time, not only to help readers see the world through the lens of Scripture, but also to encourage.
Sometimes it can seem as if our problems are such that no one in any previous age ever saw their like. And yet as the Apostle Paul wrote, “No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man.” Yes, it’s true that we face a world of problems, but God has not left us in darkness without hope in the world.
If there is one idea that I hope to impart to readers of this blog, it’s this: No matter how great the struggles we face in our personal lives, no matter how great the crises we face as a nation, the Word of God makes us complete and thoroughly equipped to address them. As Gordon Clark and John Robbins rightly taught, the 66 books of the Bible have a systematic monopoly on truth. Further, it is the ignorance, perhaps even knowing rejection, of this simple idea that had led the formerly Christian West to the brink of disaster.
Radio Lux Lucet Ep.19: The Bible, Foreign Policy, and The War in Syria
Posted in Radio Lux Lucet, Uncategorized, tagged Foreign Policy, Syria on May 9, 2018| 5 Comments »
#14: Budget Busters, Etc.
Posted in Videos, tagged Foreign Policy, Gun Control, Pope Francis, Roman Catholicism, US Fiscal Policy on March 25, 2018| 2 Comments »
By Whatever Means Necessary: Has The Time Come To Take Out Kim Jong-un?
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized, tagged Antichrist, Foreign Policy, Non-Interventionism, North Korea, Ron Paul on October 8, 2017| 2 Comments »

North Korean dictator Kim John-un and one of his missiles.
The conflict between the US and North Korea, long simmering on the back burner, has in recent times threatened once again to come to a full boil, with the war of words between North Korea’s Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump threatening to become a war of bullets and bombs and ICBMs.
In August, Baptist pastor Robert Jeffress lent his support to the war option, saying in an interview with the Washington Post
that God has given Donald Trump the go-ahead to “use whatever means necessary – including war…to take out Kim Jong Un.”
Jeffress justified his stance by appealing to Romans 13, which, he said, “gives the government…the authority to do whatever, whether it’s assassination, capital punishment or evil punishment to quell the actions of evildoers like Kim Jonh Un.”
What are Christians to make of Jeffress’ statements? Do they comport with what the Bible teaches about war and foreign policy or not? Before exploring those questions, a little history is in order.
The Week In Review 6/24/17: Syria, Etc.
Posted in The Week In Review, tagged Foreign Policy, Politics, SJWs on June 24, 2017| Leave a Comment »

An F-18 takes off from a US aircraft carrier.
My apologies for the rather bland headline this week. I just couldn’t think of a catch title for this edition of the Review. Well, I’ll try to do better next week. And without further ado, let’s dive into this week’s stories.
Syrian Crisis Escalates
Perhaps the biggest story this past week was the downing of a Syrian government SU-22 jet by US F-18s from the aircraft carrier George Bush. The incident, which occurred Sunday 6/18, is said to represent the first time a US jet has downed a foreign manned aircraft since 1999.
The US has claimed that the jet was attacking fighters of the US backed Syria Democratic Forces (SDF), but, as Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams reported this week, this clam has been contradicted by the Syrian Observatory For Human Rights, which stated “sources confirmed that the warplane did not target the Syria Democratic Forces in their controlled areas.”
As Daniel McAdams pointed out, the Syrian Observatory For Human Rights is generally considered to be pro- US backed rebels. The group has even been cited the US government. As such, it is surprising for this group to contradict the storyline put out by the US.
The Syrian government claims that the jet, rather than attacking the SDF, actually was going after ISIS at the time it was shot down. If what Damascus says is true, it would be another piece of evidence backing the contention that the US, in fact, supports ISIS.
Although this may sound like a shocking claim, the logic of it is simple and compelling. The US and ISIS have a common goal in Syria, both want to overthrow Syrian president Bashar Assad. And if they have this common goal, would it be such a stretch to believe that the US would shoot down a Syrian government jet that was attacking ISIS?
Syria’s ally Russia reacted angrily, announcing it would no longer us a communication channel designed to prevent the targeting of US aircraft operating in Syrian airspace.
The big takeaway in all this is that the US and Russia took another step closer to war in the middle east, a place where the US has no legitimate security interests, but which could serve the powder keg that sets off a major regional or world war.
The Week In Review 4/29/2017: Missile Command
Posted in The Week In Review, tagged Foreign Policy, John Robbins, North Korea on April 28, 2017| Leave a Comment »

North Korea expresed outrage after the U.S. Air force announced the successful launch of an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile, the Minuteman III, on Wednesday. Photo by Ian Dudley/U.S. Air Force/UPI.
Long long ago, in a strip mall far far away, nerdy teenagers used to hang out in now almost mythical places known as video arcades.
For a quarter, you could zap space invaders, blow up asteroids, or play the part of some Italian plumber named Mario.
I know all this, you see, because I lived it. Yes, I was a first generation gamer, tokens in pocket, hanging out with my fellow freaks and geeks in the backroom of Baker Street Books – yes, believe it or not, the local bookstore had a game room – to see who could get high score on Gorf.
In an age of Xboxs, 60 inch flat panel monitors, and online gaming, I suppose all that sounds pretty quaint. But this was the golden age of the video arcade, and we had a blast.
One of the most popular games from this period was Missile Command. The goal of the player was to protect his cities from being nuked by using anti-ballistic missiles to shoot down the enemy’s incoming ICBMs. If you lost your cities, it was, in classic video game lingo, GAME OVER.
In retrospect, I suppose a game like that, inspired by the Cold War as it was, served to add a bit a levity to what was the deadly serious, ever present threat of nuclear war between the US and the Soviet Union.
And speaking of the Cold War, all the headlines about North Korea and nuclear bombs this past week brought back memories of those bad old days when we were regularly treated to newscasts featuring stony faced Leonid Brezhnev, massive eyebrows and all, watching columns of Red Army soldiers, tanks and missiles pass before his reviewing stand in the Kremlin.
Those same headlines also got me to thinking about the foolishness of America’s interventionist foreign policy, and how intervention, once the decision is made to start it, can take on a life of its own.
The Week In Review 4/15/2017 – Put Not Your Trust In Princes
Posted in The Week In Review, tagged Donald Trump, Foreign Policy, Taxes, Transgenderism on April 15, 2017| 2 Comments »
This past week, what has it brought? Quite a bit and nothing good. At least that’s how it looks from where I sit. Among the gifts that came our way were a flip-flopping president, wars and rumors of wars, and the traditional IRS tax deadline.
Put Not Your Trust In Princes
The psalmist tells us, “Put not your trust in princes, not in the son of man, in whom there is no help.” Wise words those, and one’s that Christians would do well to heed when talking politics. And the words and actions of President Trump drove this point home this past week.
America First. That was a consistent motto of Trump the candidate.
This platform was not original with Trump. It hearkened back to the days prior to WWII when a movement by that name arose. The goal America Firsters was to keep America out of WWII.
In Trump’s case, it was a reference to the many ongoing conflicts the US has found itself in.
Trump made a number of excellent statements during the campaign about having better relations with Russia and ending America’s involvement in Syria.
Trump questioned NATO calling it obsolete. And he was exactly correct in doing so.
But this past week, Trump repudiated all this.
Late last week, on the flimsiest pretext, he lobbed 59 Cruise missiles at Russia’s ally Syria. This one act likely destroyed any hope of Trump ever repairing relations with Russia and embroiled the US deeper than ever in the Syrian conflict, a war which the US has no business fighting.
The Week In Review 4/8/2017 – On Trump, Terrorists, and Tomahawk Cruise Missiles
Posted in The Week In Review, Uncategorized, tagged CIA, Donald Trump, Economic Crisis, Foreign Policy, Immigration, Islamic Terrorism on April 8, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Susan Rice
The news came fast and furious this past week I seem to say that a lot, but the past seven days have been off the charts. Let’s take a look at it.
On Trump
It seems like longer than that, but it was just last weekend that alt-media superstar Mike Cernovich revealed that Obama administration official Susan Rice was the one who requested the unmasking of Trump transition team officials.
In March Trump sent and outraged tweet claiming that Obama “wiretapped” him, which prompted howls of protest from the mainstream media. Trump had no proof they said. What do they say now?
If one were to take the term “wiretap” in the strictest literal sense, then the revelations about Rice do not support Trump’s allegation. But if we understand “wiretap” as a general term for surveillance, then, yes, the story certainly does back up Trump.