Words / Definitions / Outcome

I'm embarassed that I've been so slow in catching on. I, like so many in America have focused on party issues and endless, meaningless debates. Once in a while I catch the redefinition or the interesting new use of a word, and of course the words that become part of our nation's discourse like "infrastructure" and "contiguous," to name just a couple. If you could have seen me reading about the diplomatic meeting between our man in Iraq and the man from Iran, you would have seen the light come on over my head. A country that America has not been willing to deal with, nor had to deal with for over 25 years is suddenly being approached by America for assistance in Iraq. The American leader has referred to Iran as "an axis of evil" and the Iranian leader, I believe considers America to be the great satan. Now they come together, isn't that an interesting dynamic duo? For the past 25 years, Iraq has served as the buffer zone between America and Iran, and suddenly 5 months after Saddam Hussein is murdered, Iraq is the very issue that is bringing America and Iran to the negotiation table. When I scratched my head and thought to myself, 'I don't get it.' I suddenly got it! Remember in America, it takes war to win peace! We call a pre-emptive attack based upon bad intelligence, a 'response to terror.' Then it's only a matter of time before we all realize that "democracy is maintained through tyranny." Now back to these new found quasi allies. President Ahmadinejad just recently held a holocaust denial conference and has been quoted to say something about removing Israel from the map. Now, we presume in the midst of nuclear disarmament, war threats, and power plays that he is referring to some sort of military attack or even worse. But if you consider the Roadmap to Peace, the same mission is ultimately accomplished. First we encourage the Prime Minister of Israel to barter the land away without actually receiving the reciprocal offer of the agreement, then Dr. Rice shows up and says the Palestinian people must have a contiguous land and we are negotiating the boundaries to pre 1967. I checked, the original UN designation and the surrounding Arab nations left neither Israel nor the Palestinian's claim of the Judean desert to be contiguous. Let's consider the land that Isarael has gained since, it has been negotiated back to the pre 67 boundaries. You'll notice that Egypt isn't giving any of the Sinai Peninsula to these 'poor displaced' Palestinians. And you may be realizing that Syria isn't discussing the Golan Heights for Palestinian relocation. And even after Israel gave up Gaza, the IDF is having to keep the peace, and now after the war in Lebanon with Israel, America is bringing weapons to Lebanon, claiming this 'fledgling democracy' has a problem with terrorists insurgents . . . like the ones elected to their parliament? So, if Israel's military is defending all the land that Israel has given away, and Israel gives enough land away to make the Palestinian state contiguous, will Israel have little more than the toll highway between Tel Aviv and their little fraction of Jerusalem? So, is it Ahmadinejad that has plans to remove Israel off the globe, or is that the goal of the roadmap to peace?

The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit. a Proverb from Holy Scripture