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Fridays
with Eric Erickson...
Events Change
Everything
At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918
the guns of August fell silent across Europe. World War I had
concluded. Each year since, European countries have celebrated
Remembrance Day and we in this country celebrate Veterans’ Day.
Many of the national borders around the world today come from the fall
of empires that began with World War I and roughly concluded with World
War II. In some cases those border wars and imperial shifts still
impact us.
In the Middle East, one of those border issues resolved post World War
II, that being Israel, is still disputed as it has continued to shift
over time. And Israel’s enemies have grown bolder over time, even now
attempting to acquire nuclear weapons.
While we are focused on the Occupy crowd and its rapes, murders, drugs,
shootings, and tuberculosis (remember when the Tea Party crowd was like
that?! Heh.), the Rick Perry flub and rebound, jobs, and the Obama
administration, there is a menacing shadow on the horizon—will Israel
preemptively attack Iran? The signs are beginning to point to yes.
Our President and the French President, we now know, hold Israel’s
Prime Minister in contempt. But, then they have the luxury of not being
near a mass murdering fool, Iran’s President Imanutjob (traditional
spelling), who has pledged to wipe them off the face of the Earth.
Israel has no such luxury.
This situation is a reminder that events change everything. Our hopes
and fears today may not be the same tomorrow. The world may be a very
different place going into November 2012 than it is in November 2011.
—Erick Erickson
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