I have always argued on You Tube threads that Christians have
nothing to fear from the Biblical Beasts (Beast 666 (UN), Biblical Dragon (USA)
and the 2nd Beast north of Babylon (NATO) because these beasts are
theirs bent on destroying Islam for reasons I can only speculate about – inevitable
WAR OF GOOD AND EVIL in the world.
When Obama began bombing targets inside Syria in September,
I noted that it was the seventh predominantly Muslim country that had been
bombed by the U.S. during his presidency (that did not count Obama’s bombing of
the Muslim minority in the Philippines). I also previously noted that this new
bombing campaign meant that Obama had become the fourth consecutive U.S.
President to order bombs dropped on Iraq. Standing alone, those are both
amazingly revealing facts. American violence is so ongoing and continuous that
we barely notice it any more. Just this week, a U.S. drone launched a missile
that killed 10 people in Yemen, and the dead were promptly labeled “suspected
militants” (which actually just means they are “military-age males”); those
killings received almost no discussion.
To get a full scope of American violence in the world, it is
worth asking a broader question: how many countries in the Islamic world has
the U.S. bombed or occupied since 1980? That answer was provided in a recent
Washington Post op-ed by the military historian and former U.S. Army Col.
Andrew Bacevich:
As America’s efforts to “degrade and ultimately destroy”
Islamic State militants extent into Syria, Iraq War III has seamlessly morphed
into Greater Middle East Battlefield XIV. That is, Syria has become at least
the 14th country in the Islamic world that U.S. forces have invaded or occupied
or bombed, and in which American soldiers have killed or been killed. And
that’s just since 1980.
Let’s tick them off: Iran (1980, 1987-1988), Libya (1981,
1986, 1989, 2011), Lebanon (1983), Kuwait (1991), Iraq (1991-2011, 2014-),
Somalia (1992-1993, 2007-), Bosnia (1995), Saudi Arabia (1991, 1996),
Afghanistan (1998, 2001-), Sudan (1998), Kosovo (1999), Yemen (2000, 2002-),
Pakistan (2004-) and now Syria. Whew.
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