A History of War And Bloodshed

I do not know how to reach people with the message that the judgment of God is about to come upon the world.  Sometimes I feel like a lone voice crying in the wilderness, and no one is around.  Our world is changing and not for the better. World conflicts are increasing, and the unrest in our country is growing daily.  I sometimes get the “roll your eyes” look from people when I tell them that in the next few years you better enjoy what you have because the world is going to be turned into a literal hell.  Telling Christians that there will be no “Rapture” to take you out of the trouble that is coming, and they will avoid you as if you were the Antichrist.  Try telling them that war is coming, and they will dismiss you as one of those crazy sign holders that say, REPENT THE END IS NEAR

I should give you this warning if you have bought into the Syi-Fi teachings that God will not judge America, or true believers will not suffer the judgment coming on the nation, then I would recommend that you stop reading and go back to watching your favorite sports channel or whatever you do to entertain yourself.  There is no point in reading this post. It will bring nothing but frustration and anger into your life. 

Let me start with just a little history lesson concerning the past few years.  The world is more violent today than it was 20 years ago.  Looking at just our country, the land of free, home of the brave, where we are living the dream.  While you are in discussion with the young kid at Starbucks about your “coffee,” or you are concerned about how you are going to pay for your new car, boat, house or the next vacation, remember there are people in the world that our country is destroying their way of life.  These people are some of the poorest people in the world and would be happy to have a cup of coffee or even have a house to sleep in, but our government has taken that away from them under the guise of protecting you.

Those who know me will tell you I am not, nor do I claim to be an “expert” in prophecies of the Bible.  I have no book to sell no DVD’s or CD’s.  I am not trying to develop a following of people based on what is happening in the end times.  I am only sharing what is happening now.  So many “experts” talk about the future and fail to see this is the future today.  I share this, so you will be aware of what is coming.

I guess it depends on who you talk to about the number of wars, conflicts, and acts of aggression the US government has been involved in since 1776. Regardless of your definition of what constitutes war, a conflict, or an act of aggression, the US government is not a peaceful nation.  In the 242 years of our existence, there have been only about 18 years without war, conflict or act of aggression on the part of our government.

We live in a state of perpetual war, and we never feel it. Those living today in America have not been free from war, conflicts or acts of aggression, even if you were born in 1908, making you 110 years old your life has not been free from the impact of these acts of violence.

I have grandchildren whose entire lives have been shadowed by the “War on Terror.”  The War on Terror, also known as the Global War on Terrorism, is an international military campaign that was launched by the United States government after the September 11 attacks in the United States in 2001. There is no actual declared war.  Congress must vote to declare war.  The president cannot declare war even though he is the Commander-in-Chief of the military.  The “war on terrorism” was “declared” by George W. Bush on September 16, 2001.

This undeclared war has allowed the US government to overthrow the sovereign nations of Afghanistan. Iraq, and Libya.  All this is happening now, and most Americas do not give it a single thought.  When it comes to wars, we Americans have a selective memory. The Afghan war, dating from October 2001, has earned the distinction of having been forgotten while still underway. The United States toppled the Taliban in Afghanistan but gave little thought about how to stabilize the country. Supported initially by Canada in the form of JTF2 and the United Kingdom, the US was later joined by the rest of NATO, beginning in 2003. Its public aims were to dismantle al-Qaeda and to deny it a safe base of operations in Afghanistan by removing the Taliban from power.

Here is a recent report on the “War in Afghanistan” that should concern every American taxpayer. Despite appropriating over three-quarters of a trillion dollars on Afghanistan since 2001, Afghan security forces continue to be plagued by the problem of inflated rolls, with local commanders pocketing American-supplied funds to pay for nonexistent soldiers.

Large-scale corruption persists, with Afghanistan third from the bottom in international rankings, ahead of only Somalia and North Korea. When adjusted for inflation, American spending to reconstruct Afghanistan now exceeds the total expended to rebuild all Western Europe under the Marshall Plan; yet to have any hope of surviving, the Afghan government will for the foreseeable future remain almost entirely dependent on outside support.  The US government still has troops in Afghanistan.

The Iraq War was a protracted armed conflict that began in 2003 with the invasion of Iraq by a United States-led coalition that overthrew the government of Saddam Hussein. It had nothing to do with the retaliation of the 9/11 attack.

The Bush administration was eager to overthrow Saddam Hussein and equally determined to avoid getting bogged down in a prolonged nation-building mission in Iraq. The result was a “small-footprint” invasion plan aimed at leaving as quickly as possible. There was little or no preparation for the eventual collapse of Iraqi institutions, widespread looting, or an organized insurgency.  The invasion of Iraq led to the destabilization of the Middle-East and the rise of ISIS.  We still have troops in Iraq.

The Libya intervention marked the third time that Washington embraced regime change and then failed to plan for the consequences.

In Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, Washington toppled regimes and then failed to plan for a new government or construct active local forces—with the net result being over 7,000 dead U.S. soldiers, tens of thousands of injured troops, trillions of dollars expended, untold thousands of civilian fatalities, and three Islamic countries in various states of disorder. We might be able to explain a one-off failure regarding allies screwing up. But three times in a decade suggests a broader pattern in the American way of war.

Why did we go to “war” with Libya? Some critics of Western military intervention suggested that resources—not democratic or humanitarian concerns—were the real motivation for the intervention. [Look at who now controls the banks and oil reserves] Despite its relatively small population, Libya was known to possess vast resources, particularly in the form of oil reserves and financial capital.   Libya is a member of OPEC and one of the world's largest oil producers. It was producing roughly 1.6 million barrels a day before the war, nearly 70 percent of them through the state-owned National Oil Corporation.  Additionally, the country's sovereign wealth fund, the Libyan Investment Authority, was one of the largest in the world, controlling assets worth approximately US$56 billion, including over 100 tons of gold reserves in the Central Bank of Libya.

I find it interesting that the same storyline used for the war on Iraq was used for Libya.  The US government pushed the war on Iraq with the perception of Saddam Hussein as an evil madman who even committed atrocities against his people and had to be stopped.” The major media's appetite for this “killing-his-own-people” line is textbook CIA propaganda and belies the fact that the “uprising” in Libya wasn't a popular uprising because his people loved Gaddafi.

The same storyline is being used in Syria “killing-his-own-people” how many times will we fall for this lie?  In every case, the US government has entered a sovereign nation under the UN’s protection of civilians.  It seems this is only used when it involves a country that does not bow to the will of the US government regarding banking and oil.  Check it out.

The cost of dropping bombs on the countries that support “terror” could solve the decaying roads, bridges, water systems, sewage systems and the electrical grid in America.  Since 9/11 we have been dropping bombs on countries we are not even “at war” with and who have never been a threat to us.

President George W. Bush’s military dropped 70,000 bombs on five countries. But of that excessive number, only 57 of those bombs upset the international community.  Because there were 57 strikes in Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen—countries the U.S. was neither at war with nor had an ongoing conflict. And the world was horrified. There was a lot of talks that went something like, “Wait a second. Are we bombing in countries outside of war zones?  That was the end of the conversation.

Looking back at President Obama’s legacy, the Council on Foreign Relation’s Micah Zenko added up the defense department’s data on airstrikes and made a startling revelation: in 2016 alone, the Obama administration dropped at least 26,171 bombs.  That is 72 bombs every day. He bombed some of the poorest people on earth, in Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan. The total for Obama’s presidency to over 100,000 bombs and missiles striking seven countries, surpassing the 70,000 unleashed on five nations by George W. Bush.

Where does Trumps stand on dropping bombs? The U.S. has said it dropped over 2,400 bombs on Afghanistan, up from 1,337 last year. In the fight against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, the U.S. has already dropped 32,801 bombs.

In Iraq and Syria, data shows that the United States is dropping bombs at unprecedented levels. In July 2017, the coalition to defeat the Islamic State, the United States dropped 4,313 bombs, 77 percent more than it dropped in July 2016.  June, the number was 4,848 — 1,600 more bombs that were dropped in any one month under President Barack Obama since the anti-ISIS campaign started.

In Afghanistan, the number of weapons released has also shot up since Trump took office. April saw more bombs dropped in the country since the height of Obama’s troop surge in 2012. That was also the month that the United States bombed Afghanistan’s Mamand Valley with the most massive non-nuclear bomb ever dropped in combat.

Trump has also escalated U.S. military involvement in non-battlefield settings — namely Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan. In the last 193 days of the Obama presidency, there were 21 lethal counterterrorism operations across these three countries. Trump has quintupled that number, conducting at least 92 such operations in Yemen, seven in Somalia, and four in Pakistan.

Jesus was correct when He said that in the last days there would be wars and rumors of war, nation fighting nation, and unrest over the entire world. 

Do you believe all our government has done to destroy the lives of many innocent people around the world that we will not be judged?  Add to this the deaths of all the innocent children who have been murdered by abortion and the blood of those who have died at the hands of this country is crying out for vengeance from the LORD.  How can we escape the judgment that is coming?