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America has a role to play against the likes of tyrants and bullies like Putin.

Around the world today, America is a far bigger bully than Russia, and we have no assurance of our national role in the future. I am far more concerned about God's righteous judgment of our collective rebellion against God than I am about Russia or its border disputes. Jesus' death and resurrection paid for the eternal consequence of our sin to those who believe, but it did not remove sin's temporal consequences. That we have rejected God is cause for alarm.

America is the strongest free country on earth. America has a long tradition of Christian charity and has scarified much in the defense of freedom here and around the world. Until recently, America has continued to do so. And America has traditionally been the ONLY ally of Israel, a country close to God's heart. The view that Obama has changed all of that is myopic. Obama and even Bush's ill-advised "Bush Doctrine" is an aberration. America has strayed from its roots but God is not mad at her or "judging" her. Again that's already been taken care of. He is trying to draw her back to himself. Since I think America is the only thing on earth standing between the world and apocalyptic oblivion, I think there will be a turn around becasue I don't think the Great Tribulation will happen quite yet.

I don't buy the Leftist/Ron Paul/Pat Buchanan blame America approach in general or regarding Putin's aggression in particular. Buchanan has already expressed a kind of sympathy for Putin's deep regret for the breakup of the USSR. But the USSR was, as Reagan sad, an evil empire, that slaughtered tens of millions of its own people and was a constant threat to the rest of the world. America's shortcoming and failures do not justify Putin's aggression against free and sovereign countries. Apparently he is about to begin military exercises in our hemisphere in cold-war fashion. China and North Korea and Iran are looking on with great interest.

Enough already with Buchanan's shortsighted isolationism and blaming America first. The American People need to do what it takes to right this ship, build a strong military defense, get back to the free market wealth, while continuing to stand to help free and sovreign countries against aggressors like Putin.