The folks in Oklahoma and in Israel have something in common. They both want to build more shelters in schools and homes.
Of course, in Oklahoma they need shelters from tornadoes. In Israel, they need shelter from rockets.
Some analysts say Hezbollah may possess more than 60,000 rockets and missiles. Syria more than 100,000. And Syria also controls the third largest stockpile of chemical weapons in the world.
Many Israeli homes and schools already contain 'safe rooms' or bomb shelters, but they're only built to provide protection from conventional rockets or missiles. Israel's leaders are so concerned about the threat of chemical or biological weapons attacks that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered gas masks and kits for all Israelis.
To be an Israeli today means feeling surrounded. You have sworn enemies in Lebanon and Syria to the north; enemy sympathizers in Iraq, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia to the east; armies of terrorists across your border to the south in the Sinai peninsula; beyond that, a rapidly deteriorating peace with Egypt; and sworn enemies within your borders in Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Fatah and the PLO in the West Bank.
And looming above them all is Iran.
Last week, Iran publicly displayed a new group of TELs, or Transporter Erector (Missile) Launchers. They are launch platforms for Iran's Shahab-3 ballistic missiles. Based on a North Korean design, Iran's missiles have a range of 1,200 miles and can carry cluster warheads containing up to 1,400 bombs each.
The idea was to demonstrate Iran's growing firepower and ability to overwhelm Israeli missile defenses with a barrage of ballistic missiles.
On top of that, as Iran prepares for its upcoming presidential election to replace Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the mullahs are bracing for another round of citizen unrest and protest over what will surely be another rigged election. Based on the massive protests that followed the last presidential election, if the ayatollahs feel that they're losing their grip on the nation, it's not inconceivable that they may decide to engage Israel to switch focus from the domestic turmoil.
Recently, two leading military figures, retired generals James Cartwright, former Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Amos Yadlin, former head of the Israel Defense Forces Military Intelligence, published a joint document. In it, they put forth a theoretical sequence of events and speculated that eventually U.S. President Barack Obama will realize that inaction is more dangerous than action. Cartwright and Yadlin believe that he will decide to act to stop Iran's progress toward nuclear weapons. And they argued that it must be America that leads the effort, not Israel.
What they say obviously makes sense, but what will our scandal-beleagured President actually do? What do you think?
Based on the reasoning behind his recent assertion that the "war on terror" (though he refuses to use that phrase) is basically over -- and we won -- I would speculate that he won't feel inclined to do much of anything about Iran.
Ironically, despite what the administration would have us believe, most Americans realize that the war against terrorists is far from over. And if you're keeping up with what's happening in Syria, you are probably concerned that the organization that President Obama claims we have defeated -- al Qaeda -- is leading the fight against President Bashar al-Assad, and we're arming them!
So we are arming and assisting a terrorist organization that President Obama recently claimed we have decimated.
That makes as much sense to me as does the claim by one of Mr. Obama's appointees, U.S. Attorney Bill Killian in Tennessee, that the First Amendment was written to protect the government from the influence of Christianity. The Department of Justice strikes again!
I see the fingerprints of American university professors all over his ignorance. Will someone please inform Mr. Killian that he has it backwards. The First Amendment was written to protect Christianity, and all other religions, from the government!
Sad to say, the more we learn about the Department of Justice, the scarier it becomes.
And finally, Margaret Chan, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, recently labeled a new virus that seems to have originated in Saudi Arabia as a "threat to the entire world." MERS-CoV is a cousin to the mysterious SARS virus that killed thousands around 2002.
Unfortunately, this is just the latest in a growing number of plagues, viruses, and "pestilences" that are wreaking havoc across the world. Included among these are "superbugs" like MRSA, the stubborn and aggressive staph infection that kills up to 40,000 Americans a year. MRSA is making it dangerous even to go to the hospital for a routine procedure.
And worse, these superbugs are resistant to all our drugs and antibiotics. In fact, our success at combating them has backfired. Instead, our antibiotics have killed off the weaker strains and left only the strong to survive and reproduce.
Scientists at Duke University estimate that "even with the use of pesticides, over one-third of our food is lost to pests." One third. That's a present day pestilence of Biblical proportions.
I think it's safe to say that we are living in a "time of pestilence." In Luke 21, Jesus warned that in the last days "there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences."
On this week's program, I'll name just a few of the plagues and pestilences that are engulfing our world. I think you'll be stunned to see how precisely Christ's description of these days is being fulfilled.
Of course, in Oklahoma they need shelters from tornadoes. In Israel, they need shelter from rockets.
Some analysts say Hezbollah may possess more than 60,000 rockets and missiles. Syria more than 100,000. And Syria also controls the third largest stockpile of chemical weapons in the world.
Many Israeli homes and schools already contain 'safe rooms' or bomb shelters, but they're only built to provide protection from conventional rockets or missiles. Israel's leaders are so concerned about the threat of chemical or biological weapons attacks that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered gas masks and kits for all Israelis.
To be an Israeli today means feeling surrounded. You have sworn enemies in Lebanon and Syria to the north; enemy sympathizers in Iraq, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia to the east; armies of terrorists across your border to the south in the Sinai peninsula; beyond that, a rapidly deteriorating peace with Egypt; and sworn enemies within your borders in Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Fatah and the PLO in the West Bank.
And looming above them all is Iran.
Last week, Iran publicly displayed a new group of TELs, or Transporter Erector (Missile) Launchers. They are launch platforms for Iran's Shahab-3 ballistic missiles. Based on a North Korean design, Iran's missiles have a range of 1,200 miles and can carry cluster warheads containing up to 1,400 bombs each.
The idea was to demonstrate Iran's growing firepower and ability to overwhelm Israeli missile defenses with a barrage of ballistic missiles.
On top of that, as Iran prepares for its upcoming presidential election to replace Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the mullahs are bracing for another round of citizen unrest and protest over what will surely be another rigged election. Based on the massive protests that followed the last presidential election, if the ayatollahs feel that they're losing their grip on the nation, it's not inconceivable that they may decide to engage Israel to switch focus from the domestic turmoil.
Recently, two leading military figures, retired generals James Cartwright, former Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Amos Yadlin, former head of the Israel Defense Forces Military Intelligence, published a joint document. In it, they put forth a theoretical sequence of events and speculated that eventually U.S. President Barack Obama will realize that inaction is more dangerous than action. Cartwright and Yadlin believe that he will decide to act to stop Iran's progress toward nuclear weapons. And they argued that it must be America that leads the effort, not Israel.
What they say obviously makes sense, but what will our scandal-beleagured President actually do? What do you think?
Based on the reasoning behind his recent assertion that the "war on terror" (though he refuses to use that phrase) is basically over -- and we won -- I would speculate that he won't feel inclined to do much of anything about Iran.
Ironically, despite what the administration would have us believe, most Americans realize that the war against terrorists is far from over. And if you're keeping up with what's happening in Syria, you are probably concerned that the organization that President Obama claims we have defeated -- al Qaeda -- is leading the fight against President Bashar al-Assad, and we're arming them!
So we are arming and assisting a terrorist organization that President Obama recently claimed we have decimated.
That makes as much sense to me as does the claim by one of Mr. Obama's appointees, U.S. Attorney Bill Killian in Tennessee, that the First Amendment was written to protect the government from the influence of Christianity. The Department of Justice strikes again!
I see the fingerprints of American university professors all over his ignorance. Will someone please inform Mr. Killian that he has it backwards. The First Amendment was written to protect Christianity, and all other religions, from the government!
Sad to say, the more we learn about the Department of Justice, the scarier it becomes.
And finally, Margaret Chan, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, recently labeled a new virus that seems to have originated in Saudi Arabia as a "threat to the entire world." MERS-CoV is a cousin to the mysterious SARS virus that killed thousands around 2002.
Unfortunately, this is just the latest in a growing number of plagues, viruses, and "pestilences" that are wreaking havoc across the world. Included among these are "superbugs" like MRSA, the stubborn and aggressive staph infection that kills up to 40,000 Americans a year. MRSA is making it dangerous even to go to the hospital for a routine procedure.
And worse, these superbugs are resistant to all our drugs and antibiotics. In fact, our success at combating them has backfired. Instead, our antibiotics have killed off the weaker strains and left only the strong to survive and reproduce.
Scientists at Duke University estimate that "even with the use of pesticides, over one-third of our food is lost to pests." One third. That's a present day pestilence of Biblical proportions.
I think it's safe to say that we are living in a "time of pestilence." In Luke 21, Jesus warned that in the last days "there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences."
On this week's program, I'll name just a few of the plagues and pestilences that are engulfing our world. I think you'll be stunned to see how precisely Christ's description of these days is being fulfilled.
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