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Posted: Sunday, January 21, 2018 03:54 PM
OUR VIEW: President Trump's UN Speech Made It Clear To World Tuesday American Will Not Be Bystander To History
President Donald J. Trump don't plan on being a bystander of history while evil seeks to destroy not only America, but the entire world.
In one of the most important speeches of his presidency, President Donald Trump stood tall on the world stage at the UN Tuesday during his first address to the World body and let everyone know that America will no longer be kicked around by nations wanting to destroy us.
Similar to his major foreign policy speeches in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia last spring and Warsaw, Poland this past summer, President Trump's speech was both historic and potentially game-changing.
As Newt Gingrich said this week "the President's speech explained the strategy of a sovereignty based nationalism as a clear alternative to the globalist desire to submerge nations in international agreements and institution." Newt was spot on in his commentary.
During the speech President Trump called for “a great reawakening of nations, for the revival of their spirits, their pride, their people, and their patriotism,” which stood in deep contrast to speeches made at the UN during the eight year tenure of former President Obama.
President Trump's words were a strong, clear, decisive call for the world to accept the fact that America is not ashamed of her national identity and other nations should not be ashamed of theirs either. It is in each nation's ability to embrace their individual identities and respect the identities of other nations that the world can try and forge a time of future peace, prosperity and safety.
With so many threats on the world stage at the present time, it is imperative that the UN change it's current ways however, and cease from being so ineffective at keeping peace.
The truth is there is nothing the UN in itself can do to keep peace in a wicked sinful world. Only until the Prince of Peace, the Lord Jesus Christ, returns to planet Earth, can the world ever hope to be without violence in its borders. To be frank, the world at large is facing a time shortly of great Tribulation and bloodshed it has never known in its history according to God's Word. "When they say peace and safety, then sudden destruction shall come against them as a woman in travail," says the Apostle Paul in 2 Thessalonians.
As a believer in Jesus, I also believe His Word. Things are not going to get better but worse very soon. Another sad truth is that any peace the world does have will be but for a season.
Having said that, world nations and leaders should never negate the necessity of seeking to eradicate the world of evil. This has always been the purpose of government in God's sight to protect those citizens in their respective countries from threats domestically and internationally.
The "powers that be" are ordained by God and are ordained for a reason. God abhors the loss of life because of hatred, division and war. It's not His will millions die because terrorists and dictators seek to impose their ideology through violence and murder.
So until the world does experience the true peace that Jesus will bring to this planet, we as the world community must still strive and do all we can to ensure unstable regimes such as North Korea, Iran, and Syria are not allowed to provoke chaos and death across the planet.
These nations are a clear and present danger to the stability of the United States of America as well as the entire world community. Our friend Israel and her security are also at stake from these regimes as well, especially Iran, which has openly called for her destruction without hesitation.
The things President
Trump stated on Tuesday were actually notions that echoed the
founding doctrine in the Charter of
the United Nations. What he proposed was a significant step to "drain
the swamp" at the UN too and break the United Nations out of the
inefficient, bureaucratic, global government model, which has rendered
the body incapable of stopping rogue nations, terrorism, and other human
rights abuses for decades.
During his remarks, President Trump asked member nations, “Are we still
patriots? Do we love our nations enough to protect their sovereignty and
to take ownership of their futures? Do we revere them enough to defend
their interests, preserve their cultures, and ensure a peaceful world
for their citizens?”
This question was an intellectual call to arms. The United Nations’
sovereign members need to think critically about whether it is in the
best interest of their citizens to allow terrorism and unstable rogue
regimes, such as North Korea, Iran, and Syria to provoke chaos and death
across the world.
If United Nations member states allow the likes of Kim Jong Un, Hassan
Rouhani, and Bashar al-Assad to continue to possess and develop weapons
of mass destruction, torment their own people, and disregard
international laws, major war will become unavoidable.
In many ways, the president’s appeal was reminiscent of Winston
Churchill’s warnings against European appeasement of Hitler in the years
leading up to World War II.
On cue, the left in America has already condemned the speech. MSNBC's
profanity king Lawrence O'Donnell who has less class than a dead roach
on my kitchen floor called the speech "the stupidest thing ever said on
a world stage in history."
The left always condemns
anything that puts American interests before those of other nations as
divergent, isolationist, and dangerous. The left loves to ignore and
destroy history to suit their weed-induced moronic view of the world.
The truth is
every member of the United Nations has been expected to put the
interests of its own citizens first.
When the United Nations was established in 1945 to replace the League of
Nations, which had proved too ineffective to maintain peace and security
in the years following World War I, there was no expectation that Great
Britain would hold its own people second to the citizens of France. The
leaders of China would not have been expected to put the interests of
the Dutch before their own people. And Joseph Stalin knew that President
Harry Truman would put America before the USSR. Any other notion would
have been utterly preposterous.
We can only hope that member nations heed the president’s call, reawaken
their sense of national sovereignty, and realize how critically
important it is to defend their nations against the range of foreign
dangers we face at this perilous moment in history.
As President Trump said on Tuesday, “If the righteous many do not
confront the wicked few, then evil will triumph. When decent people and
nations become bystanders to history, the forces of destruction only
gather power and strength.”
To that we can only say "Amen."
To that we also praise
President Trump for making sure that as long as he is President, America
will not be a bystander!
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Christopher McDonald, Publisher, Editor in Charge
Great Smoky Mountain Journal
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