After weeks of watching our president's soft reaction to those most likely to remain our enemies (or self-serving allies), Obama seems rather like a first-year school teacher who is trying to "make nice" with the worst students in each class... actually thinking that if he's "cool" with them it will all turn out like Sidney Poitier in "To Sir, With Love," where the very thugs that hated the teacher eventually sing songs of adoration to him.
Having been a teacher and/or school administrator for 30 years, I must admit I've always been a sucker for those "teacher-befriends-hoodlum-students" movies. It seems Hollywood cranks out that familiar plot at least once or twice a decade. If there is any place where optimism and ideals should have a fighting chance... it's in a school.
"But in the real world, there are hundreds of stories never told about teachers who cared and tried just as hard as Poitier did as "Sir," but they end up being run over by the hoodums, who almost always take all that chumminess as an opportunity to start yet another spit-ball war. In other words... in the real world, it's hard to get real pirates to change their ways and try-out for the school play--even if the play is The Pirates of Penzance. In the real world, "pirate ships [do not] lower their flags when Puff roars out his name."
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That being said, I don't mind this "let's be friends approach" as long as the president is also ready to take on a different Sidney Poitier role that shows the strength of Detective Virgil Tibbs from "In the Heat of the Night."
Perhaps now that the president has been in the shoes of his predecessor for 3-and-a-half months, he'll begin understanding that it takes Mr. Tibbs-type action to get the attention of nations that harbor terrorists and pirates. It's the latter role I suspect he will need to master by the end of his first semester, but if I'm wrong, and if we begin to witness one big global "Kumbaya" hug with one man at the center... beware... things are not always as the seem.
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Friday, April 10, 2009
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Yeah...and while he was "making nice" with the Arabs he also had a sedar in the White House. I happened to read that on the internet. PLUS he'll go to church for the first time since he extracated himself from the one in Chicago, on Easter Sunday. I say, let's cover ALL the bases while we can!
WSL
WSL,
Remember the old expression (an Easop Fable) "Please all please none." He's going to find out in time that there is nothing he can say or do to make radical Muslims, for instance, want to "play nice."
I've been in Isreal, and the fact is the Palestinians don't want to live peacably with the Jews--they want them gone. We know that there will be cries for "Peace." We know we are even to pray for peace, but we also know when (and only when) true and lasting peace will come.
These are interesting times. =)
Interesting for sure!! As a Christ-follower, having done "end times" Bible studies and reading the news...MMMmmmmm it gives one pause for sure!
We are to pray for the Peace of Israel and to honor the Jews as God's Chosen Ones! I just pray that I can remain steadfast in "my" faith when (emphasis on when) the true persecution begins!
WSL
I have been brushing up on all that prophecy, too. I know believers do not all agree on this topic, but none can deny that some things are falling into place that simply have never happened or been possible in previous generations which make all of this very interesting. It is why I think the "bending of the knee" last week was so interesting, and why the "smart network" that will have everyone's "vital data" on some huge computer. Talk of one world and a "global dollar" (that will be something other than the American dollar and the Euro). Hmmmm. indeed.
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