A Time For Prayer

Where is the outrage?  Where are the protesters?  Where is the media?  Where are the body bags?

Have you taken the time to notice the massive increase in casualties of our young men and women fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq?  In June alone, the number of American soldiers that died in Afghanistan (100) almost tripled from the prior year.  Last years numbers had increased exponentially from anytime during the Bush Presidency.  So far in July, we have lost over 20 U.S. Soldiers, with 8 being killed overnight.  This comes one day after the news of Afghan soldiers turning on British coalition forces and killing 6 unsuspecting soldiers.

The Christian Science Monitor is reporting that the Taliban is back; stronger, larger and more determined than ever to push back the Coalition through violence.  The question is, what has given them this rebirth?  Why can they feel this confident?  How can they persuade Afghan soldiers, previously loyal to the U.S, to switch sides?  Why do they no longer fear the mighty U.S.A?

The answer is simple, you can read many of my previous posts, or I can give you the two word answer - President Obama!  This man is the friend of the Taliban!  This man will bring down the U.S. by any means necessary!  This man is a man to be feared by any God worshiping, freedom loving, constitution loyalist, American!

The icing on the cake came with the news that we have released Gitmo prisoners to Iraq, including Tariq Aziz, Iraq's former Deputy Prime Minister under Saddam Hussein.  The news is reporting that 55 former Hussein loyalists will be returned to Iraq, where all will almost certainly face death under the new regime.  Admittedly, this possibility does exist, after all, they did kill Saddam.  Yet, I am not completely sold.  We have seen the new Iraq government make overtures toward Iran for peace and we know what an alliance between Iran and Iraq could mean to the U.S.  By turning these military powerhouses over to Iraq, are we giving this new government a shot of expert military might, directly in the arm? 

These releases are accompanied by previous releases of war prisoners who went right back to the battle field to kill our soldiers.  We know this because some of the former prisoners were later killed in battle, but not before they killed some of our soldiers.  We know this, yet we continue to release prisoners just to repeat the same pattern.  Our soldiers are already handicapped by nature, fighting in one of the most difficult terrains.  The Soviets had already proven the difficulty of winning a war in the Afghan mountains, as they pulled out, many years later, in defeat and in bankruptcy.

The next several months will bring much change in the direction of the war.  If we proceed in our current pattern, we will send the souls of many more of our young men and women to be home with their father, leaving parents, siblings, spouses and children to mourn their loss.  Unfortunately, I do not see this President doing anything to change this pattern.  I do not see him working for the success of the U.S. military.  I do not see him working for the good of our nation; and I do not see his congress doing anything to stop him. 

For the sake of our U.S. armed forces, the families of our soldiers and for our nation; now is the time to pray.  Each morning or evening when you take time to speak to the father, take a moment to ask that he protect our soldiers; comfort surviving family and friends; remove the hate from the hearts of our enemies; and pray that he save our nation.  Join me in doing this every day.