Operation Desert Shield, was undertaken...
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Operation "Desert Shield," was undertaken to protect the border of Saudi Arabia from being breached by the Iraqi Army. Operation "Desert Storm," was undertaken to bring about peace to the people of Kuwait and protect their territorial integrity. Sadly, war was the vehicle used to achieve a solution to a very complex problem. No matter what a person's political views are on such issues, the fact remains that humankind, despite the message of the prophets and the message of Christ himself, still insist on making war in order to achieve peace.
Jeremiah was God's prophet and spoke God's word of peace. Hananiah's message was what people wanted to hear, not what God intended to communicate. The people of Jeremiah's time were eager to throw off the wooden yoke, but in their passion to rid themselves of one restraint, they found themselves bound in iron. Jeremiah was courageous in standing firm on God's foundations. He understood that no "Shield" and no "Storm" will remove the fences of hate and indifference that women and men have so carefully built between themselves. God is the giver of true peace, the prophet knew that humankind, no matter how well intentioned, was incapable to make peace without God.
Operation "Desert Storm," showed the world how new technologies enable wars to be fought "clean." The world had discovered how to remove through precision bombing, the wooden yoke of oppression. Unfortunately, we have in the process discovered the iron yoke of believing that we have found through war answers to questions as old as Jeremiah.
- Clarke
Jeremiah was God's prophet and spoke God's word of peace. Hananiah's message was what people wanted to hear, not what God intended to communicate. The people of Jeremiah's time were eager to throw off the wooden yoke, but in their passion to rid themselves of one restraint, they found themselves bound in iron. Jeremiah was courageous in standing firm on God's foundations. He understood that no "Shield" and no "Storm" will remove the fences of hate and indifference that women and men have so carefully built between themselves. God is the giver of true peace, the prophet knew that humankind, no matter how well intentioned, was incapable to make peace without God.
Operation "Desert Storm," showed the world how new technologies enable wars to be fought "clean." The world had discovered how to remove through precision bombing, the wooden yoke of oppression. Unfortunately, we have in the process discovered the iron yoke of believing that we have found through war answers to questions as old as Jeremiah.
- Clarke
