A hostile nuclear Canada? Sounds fun. ;)
Just don't say "their beer sucks!" (like John Candy in Canadian Bacon)
13 posted on Fri Apr 13 2012 07:32:53 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) by Impy: “A hostile nuclear Canada? Sounds fun. ;)”
I understand your point and as someone who has South Korean relatives who were dragged north by the Communists and have not been seen in decades, I don't minimize the problems faced by South Korea.
Two responses:
1. The South Korean military is among the best in the world. If all they had to worry about was North Korea, Seoul would long ago have taken care of the problem. The real fear is not what's north of the DMZ but what's north of the Yalu River... i.e., China.
2. Long term, while I am an economic conservative, national defense conservative, and social issues conservative, I consider moral values more important than economic success or what the bible calls “trusting in horses and chariots,” i.e., the power of the military. Sodom and Gomorrah were economic success stories, too... at least until God rained down hellfire on their heads:
Genesis 13:10-15: “And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar. Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other. Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom. But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly. And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.”
I'm very much aware of the growing problems of Korea, many of which are caused by importing Western entertainment and immorality. I'm not prepared to give up on the fight here in the United States, but there comes a time that God lets people wallow in their wickedness.