The Painfully Obvious

I have heard George W. Bush speak about democracy as the political way of peace for all nations.  The President has placed quite a few eggs in the democracy basket, and asserting with utopian and sometimes Christian language, how much better a democratic world would be for everyone.  Although my initial gut reactions to his statements were painful, I had hopes for this to be true, but I was wrong.  I was wrong, not because the Palestinians elected Hamas (blood thirsty terrorist) to govern their nation, but because of the bad logic this hope entailed.

If democracy is a government by and for the people, and if the “people” are evil or morally confused, why in the world should we expect the “magic” of democracy to circumvent the inevitable?  A wise man said, “A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.”  If a nation of people, applaud men and women who strap bombs to their bodies, and willingly murder innocent women and children, how will the fact that they get to vote change this moral degeneracy?

The answer is so obvious, that I can’t believe I bought into such foolish nonsense.  The Palestinians were given democracy, and now they may use this democracy as a tool to engage their bloodlust. Instead of building infrastructure and education, they will build car bombs.  Instead of raising children for freedom and opportunity, they will raise them as terrorist and suicide bombers.  Our hope should never, ever reside in a political rubric, but on the goodness and mercy of God, in his Son, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. ” Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God (Psalm 20:7).”

True quote!

"Wars long delayed usually are the most devastating." -Spengler-