What if ....
... Israel does not react to Iran's nuclear program, and she will - would Israel then face a damnable position?
... the US ignores the need to restrain Israel, and she won't - would the US then need to act sooner rather than later or be damned for its hesitation?
... Russia backs Iran, and she does - then what risk does the US face if she attacks Iran against the wishes of the UN?
... China also opposes military action against a placatory Iran, and she will - will the US face the risk of provoking her nemesis and awakening the great sleeping dragon?
... Russia and Iran then conspire to attack Iraq and preempt US actions, as the bible predicts - would that compromise US strategic interests?
... Turkey then crosses the Iraqi border to open a new front in the middle east, and she probably will - would that drag Europe into the melting pot?
... Pakistan then also succeeds in unifying Islamic extremism through its political stalemate, and that is a real possibility - could that trigger a dangerous chain reaction at the nuclear end of the Islamic axis?
... all of the players then decided to abandon their private agendas for the sake of peace, an unlikely scenario - would that not just delay the inevitable collision of competing interests?
... some misguided fool sets light to the whole tinderbox, and there are a few that come to mind - would the world's great fire brigade, the US, get there before the world catches fire.
And if peace is then unlikely, and it is, then is the world on the edge of a precipice .... ?
(c) Peter Eleazar at www.bethelstone.com
1 comment:
Let me first make this point: I am not anti-Islamic, just pro-Christian. I speak from a Christian perspective to a Christian audience, without ever seeking to diminish or offend other perspectives.
As to the significance of Isaac, well the authorised bible reads, "Take your son, your only son and offer him", at some time after Ishmael was cut off from Abram and Sarai.
The Greek word for "only" used in reference to this chapter by new testament writers, is monogenes, meaning genetically singular, a very specific reference to Isaac and, in other contexts, Jesus; the same term applies to both and reflects the notion of "only begotten son".
These points do not specifically diminish Ishmael, the son of Abraham's handmaid. Thus God said, that from him would rise a great nation.
His descendancy from abraham was blessed, but the separation of the two boys represented a watershed between two competing world-views.
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