The free world is getting precariously close to where it is going to have to ‘fish or cut bait’ on the decision to forcibly knock out Iran’s ability to acquire nuclear weapons. As you read this letter, Iran is close to putting together such a weapon in their deep, underground nuclear bomb building facilities.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth broadcasting from the north lawn of the White House yesterday made these points:
1. We cannot allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon.
2. We would prefer to work it out by negotiation but
the U.S. and Israel are prepared to act if
negotiations are rebuffed.
3. Iran has an intercontinental ballistic missile which can reach Washington, DC, or Los Angeles posing threat to the U.S. in addition to the threat of a conventional missile with a nuclear warhead aimed at Israel.
4. Pete Hegseth concluded remarks by saying the US prefers to work it out with negotiations to avoid the alternative and ‘for the sake of Iranian people’. It was the Secretary of Defense’s use of the phrase ‘for the sake of the Iranian people’ that caught my attention.
Yes, we have very large ‘Bunker Buster Bombs’ that can penetrate deeply. We have a 30,000 pound bunker buster bomb. To date it has not been used in warfare. We dropped a 21,000 pound bunker buster bomb against a terrorist tunnel complex in Afghanistan in 2017. Perhaps the depth of penetration is not as deep as is needed however since Iran’s nuclear facility is buried very deep underground. They have been building it for years all the while lying about the real facility and showing our nuclear inspectors a different one.
Yes, there would be collateral damage to certain members of a civilian population depending upon how many people are in the immediate area but Pete Hegseth’s concern ‘for the Iranian people’ sounds ominous. It sounds like fallout from a low yield nuclear device which may be the only ordinance capable of penetrating to the depth required.
Let’s take an extreme example to show the ability of penetration of the biggest nuclear device that would assuredly not be needed. In the 1960s, the U.S. had the ability to build a 100 megaton (100 million tons of TNT) hydrogen bomb which if detonated over the city of Washington, DC, for example, the U.S. News & World Report indicated would leave a crater 1 mile deep and 9 miles in diameter. The City of Washington is a 10 mile square of land ceded by the State of Maryland to the federal government for the purpose of setting up the nation’s capital. The Grand Canyon is one mile deep so where Washington once was you would be looking into something like the Grand Canyon, one mile deep and 9 miles wide.
Every building – the White House, the Capitol, the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, all the buildings along the mall – all of Washington, DC, would be vaporized into the air. There would be nothing but a giant hole in the ground.
It was thought that such a weapon would never be needed and should never be used and therefore was not made. It is thought, however, that Russia has a 51 megaton hydrogen bomb (according to my children’s World Book Encyclopedia year 2000 edition which was the last year the youngest of my children was at home before she went off to college.)
By comparison the bomb dropped on Hiroshima was an atomic bomb, not a hydrogen bomb and was equivalent to 1.5 kilotons (One thousand five hundred tons of TNT). It left no crater. So you understand it would be necessary to size the nuclear device to reach the depth of penetration required to reach Iran’s bomb-making production facility located deep underground.
And all this coming when Putin has threatened a nuclear weapon against the Ukraine if he does not get his way. Think back to snowball battles when you were a kid. Once someone threw a snowball with a rock in it, other snowballs turned up with rocks in them. Once one nuclear device is set off in our present world it becomes easier for others to follow.
Hold your breath and Pray!
Israel could not sit idly by and allow an Iranian nuclear bomb to be detonated over Israel. That’s the fire of the Nazi crematories brought into the present exponentially.
President Trump is a Peacemaker, not a war hawk. Peacemakers are not dictators. Israel is prepared to act unilaterally if need be to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. Ideally they will need a ‘little help’ from the U.S. as Senator Lindsey Graham put it. President Trump is prepared to give them the help they need.
Let’s change the subject for a moment. The devil attempts to make a peacemaker (President Trump who seeks peace) out to be a dictator – which President Trump is not. They are calling President Trump by the ultimate descriptor of a dictator. They are calling our president ‘another Hitler’. The devil always calls the good guy the bad guy which is what he and his minions are up to in labeling President Trump a dictator.
Hitler, an ultimate dictator, did not rise to power with a promise to build concentration camps and crematories to kill 6 million Jews. The devil first brought Hitler to power by ‘flattering the German people’ – “You are the superior race.” Scripture tells us that “the devil entered Judas… (Luke 22:3). Even so, the devil ‘entered Hitler’. Hitler placed fear in the hearts of all who dared oppose him.
A good friend of mine, Daniella Brabner Smith, a young girl in Germany during Hitler’s rise to power, told me that her uncle was hung with piano wire for plotting against Hitler’s life. The rest of the devil’s work through Hitler is well known.
Returning for the moment to the devilish false accusation against our fine American president, who is arguably the greatest pro-life president America has had to date. His detractors falsely call him a dictator.
If you are elected on a promise to get terrorist gangs out of the country, are you a dictator when you proceed to carry out the will of the people who gave you an overwhelming mandate to do so? You are only taking steps to “implement” the will of the vast majority of the people. You are an ‘Implementor’ not a ‘dictator’. Our president has a mandate to implement the will of the people among which is his promise to pursue peace in the world.
“Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.” (The words of Christ himself in Matthew 5:9)
Blessed are the peacemakers who work with dictators (Putin) to prevent World War III.
Finally my thoughts at this time return to the prophetic warning contained in the inspired poem Prayer for the preborn Child.
As school children studying history, we learned the truth of ‘you reach the east by sailing west’. Has it not occurred to us (as we hold our breath and pray) to seek the favor of God and get the King of Heavens Armies on our side by protecting immediately with federal law the lives of the least of these (‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’ [Mt. 25:40]) by enshrining in federal law a bill passed by a Republican majority in the House and Senate recognizing and protecting the equal humanity and personhood of preborn children from conception created in the Holy Image of God?
Life begins, like everything else, at the beginning. Let’s protect our own adult lives (reach the East) by sailing west into the lives of preborn children to protect them for God. Let’s revere what he has created and stand against all the devilish mischief and deceptive word usage. There is power in the language – for good or evil. Evil would pluck preborn children as a fragrant rosebud that it may die rather than allow that rosebud to bloom into lovely satisfying maturity.
Yes, if we outlaw abortion nationwide:
1. Wayward men, including some in the U.S. Congress, will be without ‘after the fact’ birth control for their mistresses.
2. A single mother with too many children already will have another.
3. Preborn children, including those known to be Downs children will be allowed to be born.
You don’t fight the disease by killing the patient. The world will experience the blessing of God’s gift of agape love. We have never had a Down’s child start a war or target an entire race of humanity for extermination.
4. — And a billion other “good” arguments for abortion the devil himself cooks up. The word ‘abortion’ itself is a mild word for what is in truth the “CRUCIFIXION” of a child. Abortion can even be lifesaving as when a pilot ‘aborts’ a take-off when he spots another plane crossing the runway in front of him.
Any woman will tell you that with pregnancy comes a sense of the inward presence of another soul.
A 3 cell human embryo figuratively glows with a white hot incandescence, having just been released from the finger tip of God. Best to allow that new soul to be planted in the fallow fields of earth to grow into ripened fruition with one’s fellowmen rather than snuff her candle out.
Best to give the gift of life and then, as Mother Theresa said, “If you do not want the child, give it to me.” (adoption)
Statistically, there have been approximately 1.5 million abortions in America yearly since Roe v. Wade (1973). Curiously, the shortage of children wanted for adoption is approximately the same 1.5 million. We need to be supporting such organizations as Catholic Adoption Services, not driving them out of business.
If the federal government took just a small fraction of the money they spend on foolishness and gave it to legitimate adoption agencies, we would be doing God’s will and additionally save women from Post-abortion Syndrome (depression following abortion that sometimes leads to suicide).
Ask your Representative or Senator to draft and introduce in the Congress a law forbidding the crucifixion and death of preborn children and facilitating their adoption instead. Let’s ‘reach the East by sailing West’.
Let’s acknowledge the gifts that God gives to the world in preborn children (another Louis Pasteur, another Mozart, another Ronald Reagan, another YOU! – including the gift of peace – a Peacemaker).
1. Yes, Ronald Reagan’s peace through strength is necessary in the first place. (King David had a top notch army.)
But
2. King David also composed most of the Psalms. He was the apple of God’s eye. He had spiritual strength, that is, true strength that brings the God of Heaven’s Armies to your side.
As we hold our breath and pray at this time in the history of our world we need to be about ‘reaching the East by sailing West’.
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