So Who Controls US Foreign Policy and
Why? Don’t Ask! – CL
I hate to
admit it, but like most Americans, for most of my life I believed that we were
DaGoodGuys and everyone else were DaBadGuys. Then, about 12-15 years ago I
started to read. Yeah, I know – stop reading!
Up until
that time I relied on most of the sources for news that most Americans relied
on.
Why, I even
listened to Rush – DaConservative ElRushbo - still do on occasion!
To say that
the last decade or so has been a shocking discovery of reality might be more of
a surprise if it wasn’t for my gradual gains over the years in familiarity with
the Bible – the insights gained are literally playing out in front of my eyes
in full technicolor and gory details!
And the
posts today are doing just that:
So
one 13th century Russian said that God is in Truth and another 20th
century (Solzhenitsyn) said that strength is in Truth. And both were facing a
threat from the West when they made their statements; seven centuries later,
and so little has changed… amazing, no?
Not
a coincidence if you ask me.
So where do we go from here?
How about this:
Time will tell, of course,
but my own belief is that both Russia and the West can only be truly
saved by a return to the values of repentance and self-limitation which
Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote about while still in the Soviet Union in the
distant year 1973 (full text in PDF format here). The same Alexander Solzhenitsyn, already in the
West a full decade later, also warned us that only a return to true
spirituality and God could save the world. Again, I can only
agree with him no matter how ridiculous this may sound to western (and
Russian!) materialists, “cultural Christians”, or any other nous-suppressed person nowadays.