OPINION:
Most everybody over the age of 50 should vividly know the name of Winston Churchill, the prime minister of England during the dark days of World War II. For those who are historically challenged, it was through his strong character that he almost single-handedly willed England to not only endure the endless air raids of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi’s but ultimately win the conflict with the aid of the United States.
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Perhaps though, many have forgotten that another man was prime minister at the outset of hostilities. Neville Chamberlain through his bumbling foreign policy of appeasement of Hitler’s fanaticism served to strengthen the Nazi cause to the point that a victorious outcome proved almost unattainable. In an effort to pacify Hitler’s aggression, Chamberlain signed on behalf of England the Munich Agreement, which ceded to the Nazis a significant portion of Czechoslovakia after the German war machine conquered that territory by force. Then, after leading a tepid response to the further aggression on the part of Hitler’s stormtroopers, Chamberlain was forced to resign. Only a few short months before his ignominious exit, England had finally declared war on Germany, who had unleashed another blitzkrieg on their neighboring country of Poland on September 1, 1939.
On January 1, 1940, just before Churchill was selected to succeed Chamberlain in May of that same year, the future prime minister summed up succinctly the ludicrous position of appeasement as the basis of a country’s foreign policy when he said these words: “Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough that it will eat him last.”
Now it appears that Mr. Biden’s administration is allowing our nation to follow in the footsteps of Neville Chamberlain as it hopelessly attempts to feed the Iranian king crocodile along with the other juvenile crocs that live in the same putrid swamp. There are several cases in point that justify such an accusation.
It is now old news that Mr. Biden has decided to withhold ammunition from Israel that she so sorely needs to defend herself. It is also clear that the Biden administration is persisting in a not-so-subtle attempt to remove Benjamin Netanyahu as the Prime Minister of Israel and replace him with someone more amenable to the administration’s foreign policy.
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Of which foreign policy do I speak?
None other than the appeasement of Iran and its terrorist aggression throughout the Middle East and the world. But just this past week new and ominous activities reared their ugly heads. Consider for a moment the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. standing to honor the “memory” and legacy of the Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi during a moment of silence and remembrance held by that “august” body.
Did the representative of Mr. Biden’s administration not know that Raisi had been known as the “Butcher of Tehran?” — a moniker well deserved for the indiscriminate massacre of great masses of people who dared oppose the despotic reign of the Ayatollahs. Not only that but Forbes magazine has reported that many of these victims of inhuman violence were mere children. Then, in an implausible display of insensitivity, the Chaplain of the Democrat-controlled Senate rose to say a prayer “for the Iranian people who mourn the death of their president.”
The reality is, in striking contrast to the Senate “prayer,” that the vast majority of Iranians are not in mourning; they are ecstatic to learn of the death of such a hated, ruthlessly violent, corrupt individual.
Consider for a moment if anyone were to give a standing ovation to honor the legacy of Adolph Hitler or maybe that of Stalin or Mussolini. Yep, you are correct in your assessment. If a pathetic, deranged soul dared to act in any way to honor these monsters of history, they would immediately be run out of town on the proverbial rail or even worse. And they would deserve their self-inflicted fate.
Why is it, then, that the same type of honor shown to this newly minted monster should be ignored by the American public, particularly those of us who vote? It is simply because that is the Biden Administration’s way of attempting to appease a mortal enemy of our nation. Any so-called leader worth his salt would at least immediately fire our feeble and even cowardly ambassador to the United Nations. And just maybe it is time to begin the process of reducing our national debt by ceasing to waste exorbitant sums of money and time on an organization that holds America in such low esteem and who coddles our very enemies who would seek to destroy our nation. Maybe that process also ought to begin with the World Health Organization and other minions of those who hate America.
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At this point, even the everyday person in our nation should understand that America now finds herself in a precarious position both internally and worldwide. Much of the blame for this predicament should be laid at the feet of leadership that takes us away from the principles upon which this nation was founded and who looks to embrace the antithetical worldview of our sworn enemies. To put it simply, the crocodiles are hungry once again, and we are running out of croc food. It is looking more and more like we are next on their menu.
The obvious question that arises is what are we as Christians to do? The first and foremost response is and should be, to pray. Pray not only for the heart and soul of our nation but for our leadership as well that they might somehow come to grips with reality before it is too late. Secondly, we need to look at our own lives to ensure that we are walking in a way that is pleasing to God. God’s true Church needs to also be about the business of fulfilling her own calling in this day and time by returning to God’s Holy Word for a compass. Finally, we, as Christians, need so desperately to stand steadfast in the truth in the marketplace and even in the political realm.
At the end of the play J.B., there is a conversation between J.B. and his wife Sarah about all the struggles they have suffered and what the future might hold. Sarah then says to J.B. these poignant words that so apply to our nation as well:
Blow on the coal of the heart.
The candles in the churches have all gone out.
The stars have fallen from the sky.
Blow on the candle of the heart.
And we will see by and by.
At Southern Evangelical Seminary we continue to hold to a decidedly biblical worldview. It goes without saying that we are also proponents of a strong and viable relationship with our friends in Israel. But it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever to get in bed with the likes of Iran in any form or fashion. The old mountain saying, “When you get in bed with fleas, you’re gonna get fleas” certainly applies.
We are hopeful that these activities apparently sanctioned by Mr. Biden are nothing more than a mistaken concept of foreign policy akin to that of Neville Chamberlain. But no matter whether this national journey is intentional or simply misguided, if we insist on continuing down this God-forsaken path of collaboration with the demonic forces of this world, our nation cannot and will not survive the coming deluge of violence lapping up on our very own shores.
May God have mercy on America and the precious souls of her inhabitants.
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After a successful career as a lawyer and judge, Judge Phil Ginn retired as the Senior Resident Superior Court Judge for the 24th Judicial District in North Carolina. Throughout his 22-year judicial career, he had the privilege of holding court in almost 50% of the county seats in North Carolina. Currently, Judge Ginn serves as the president of Southern Evangelical Seminary (ses.edu) and is a regular contributor to Christianity.com and The Washington Times. Judge Ginn has also been featured on Fox News, CBN, Newsmax, Decision Magazine, The Christian Post, Townhall, and many others.
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