[TheRealThing]

"Like salt and light, we have preserved and perpetuate peace and safety across the globe."

But not always, and there's the rub: it seems if one holds up a part for scrutiny, you immediately suggest it is a denunciation of the whole.

I wasn't in Vietnam. I freely admit that. That the enemy hid amongst the populous by day and marauded by night, I understand. To my remembrance, I have nowhere suggested your experience is anything but as you say you found things.

I agree that the United States is often "salt and light," however, we are not immune to the frailty, foible, folly, and desperate wickedness of the human heart. Not as individuals. Not as a people. Not as a Nation. Not as an Armed Services sector.

No, I didn't suggest that, you offered up that little tidbit to counter my observation as to how we Americans are perceived in the world. The contention of the left is as President Obama has revealed during his several apology tours, we caused it. The left in general, believe we caused most of the armed conflict of the 20th Century in fact, through our interventionism.

But since you brought it up, that as I pointed out in my analogy on Gitmo, is the underpinning of globalism, (all of which BTW, is just men greasing the rails for the reign of antichrist). Further, all the La-La lunacy about the brotherhood of man, and the 'let's play nicey nicey, 21st Century thinking foreign policy of this administration. On the one hand you profess a knowledge of the Scripture, while on the other you seemingly deny that It was God Himself, Who said man will never know peace though that may be all he talks about, until the Prince of Peace returns to rule the nations with a rod of iron.

Israel was called on often times, by no less than God Himself to go to war with other peoples. King Saul was inevitably stripped of his crown because he failed to do as the Lord had ordered him, which was to destroy every last man, woman and child of a people known as the Amalekites, along with every one of their livestock. To utterly destroy them in war. Saul didn't follow the Lord's instruction though the people were defeated by Saul as he brought home the King, booty, and certain prized livestock. War is a part of this life, and as much as we'd all prefer to avoid it, we are to be ready. That's called deterrent, and man will never grow or evolve his way out of the threat of war. In fact, war looms on the horizon for all mankind as is prophesied in Scripture. You might find that atrocious, I find it horrifying. But God calls it inevitable and is due to the fall of man and his fallen nature of destruction.

Trump is right to call for a strong US Military and we are stupid to listen to the La-La's tell us that man has evolved past the threat of large scale land war. What pray tell would Armageddon be? The blood will come up the horses reins, and the fowls of the air will feast on the dead.