Posted by
Dr. Scott on Friday, June 06, 2008 11:55:29 AM
A couple weeks ago a good friend of mine suggested that I comment on the oil executives' testimony before the Senate. The best tidbit from that exchange, by far, was Senator Maxine Waters' admission that as a liberal, her ultimate goal would be to socialize/nationalize the oil industry--a complete government takeover. You can go
here for more on that:
I've been working on a lot of other stuff lately--my personal and family life has been a mess. So, sorry to drop the ball on that. But I would like to point everyone to a great piece by
Thomas Sowell on how painfully inadequate our two candidates are.
The point he makes about nuclear war is what got my attention. I take it very personally as one who has lived through nuclear war.
Haha, got your attention. No, I really haven't, but I have believed several dozen times that I was going through a nuclear war, and awakened to discover it was not real. I don't have a count of how many times I have seen mushroom clouds. I can tell you that the last time I had one of these dreams, I was trying to get to a safe place. I was in the Salt Lake Valley, where I grew up. My family was in a shelter, and I had gone to get some extra supplies, like water or something. There was a countdown--some enemy had threatened to nuke our cities, and had given us until a certain hour to comply with their demands. Our government was going to call their bluff. We all hoped that it wasn't real, that the enemy had been exaggerating or just lying when they said that they had the capability of nuking X number of our cities. Well, the hour arrived, and I was taking a gamble that the nukes really wouldn't go off. I was crossing a park, and way off in the distance, to the north, where downtown Salt Lake is, there was a big flash, and I turned to see the mushroom cloud rising. The nearest shelter was a maintenance shed in the park. Fortunately it wasn't locked. I opened the door and saw a big bucket. I grabbed it and filled it with the spigot attached to the shed--just so I could have some water, because I didn't know how long I'd be in there, and then got inside, and shut the door. I just hoped my family would be alright.
I share this not because I think it was prophetic, but because that's what I picture the reality might be like if Iran gets a hold of nuclear weapons. Because like Thomas Sowell said, if Iran gets them, then we might as well say that the terrorists have them. And then the prediction made in one of last year's best films, "Children of Men"--that terrorists nuked New York when trying to blackmail the US--will be too real of a possibility. I have no doubt they want to do that, and that they would if they could.
There have been many times in the past 7 years when terrorists wanted to do something horrific, and were planning to, but somehow they were thwarted and were stopped. We haven't had another 9/11 (or worse), but it isn't because the terrorists aren't interested. We are working against them. And God seems to have helped a lot. I'm grateful for that. Like the British airlines plot that would have happened, if just a few other things had gone in their favor, but didn't. I see that as divine intervention. And I pray that he continues to intervene. I also pray that we won't be stupid this fall and elect someone who will hand our heads over to our enemies.