Peloni: Perfectly stated.
Weakness in the face of evil isn’t peace. It’s serving evil.
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“And they breaking of My people easily, saying, “Peace, peace,” but there is no peace,” Jeremiah 6:14
Everyone who is anyone is calling for peace. The calls for peace, Pope Leo’s ‘Vigil for Peace’ and the protests of peace might have been of more use when Iran had been conducting a Jihad against us for 47 years, killing over 1,000 Americans, kidnapping, torturing and holding others hostages, firing rockets, plotting assassinations and doing other rather ‘un-peaceful’ things.
Peace is not the absence of war. It’s the absence of evil. As long as evil exists, there is war. Not wars that are mere territorial clashes or nationalistic errors or simple misunderstandings, but ‘Jihads’, campaigns to conquer, destroy and subjugate the rest of the world.
Islam is not unique in this regard. Even today we have Communism as a counterpart to Islam. And a natural partner in the ‘red-green alliance’. And there have been certainly plenty of other examples in the past from Atilla to Hitler.
Calling for peace in the face of evil isn’t a moral opposition to war, it’s appeasement, and appeasement enables war rather than refuting it.
Iran went on attacking us under the most fervent appeasers including Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Simply refusing to fight it or trying to make peace with it didn’t end the war.
Perhaps President Trump might. Peace exists through strength in the face of evil. Weakness in the face of evil isn’t peace. It’s serving evil.
Whatever the case, appeasement is never the correct answer. You must confront the bully and even if you lose, you will have gained a little (self) respect.
The evil regime must go, sooner rather than later. Let’s hope Trump has a long-term plan and didn’t just cave in to pressure.