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We may now be seeing the beginning of a conflagration spreading throughout the Middle East. America's financial integrity is now only hanging by a thread (the support of its current account deficit by immense funds from the central banks of south-east Asia) and it might soon become a case of America-the-Desperate instead of America-the-Triumphant.
In President Nixon's time there was serious talk of a coup-d'�tat by senior Army officers because they were (quite rightly) concerned with Nixon's mental state. I think it's quite possible that, within six months, there might be talk of another one in order to overthrow the present group around Bush and formulate a new Middle East policy. The two recent resignations of middle-ranking career officers in the State Department are the merest tip of an iceberg of deep unease by more senior people to Bush's present policies.
The U.S. government has called the present attacks in Iraq: "Shock and awe". That led me to think:
Shock and awe are The Lord's.
Why can't somebody come up with "a way out", like the French and Germans (and others who would join a coalition of the concerned) intervening and occupying Iraq under a U.N. truce?
Best wishes to everyone!
\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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