Changing Policy

This week, I've been discussing the war in Iraq. Despite the huge amounts of money and materials used to address the issues there, there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of progress or accomplishments gained. This seems to be true whether considering political progress of the Iraqi people setting up a democratic government, improving living conditions of the people, instilling peace instead of bloodshed, or coming up with a time for withdrawal of our troops - our precious sons and daughters who themselves may have families of their own.

So the timeless questions stand - why? Why is all of this necessary? When will it end? Who is really benefiting from the effort? When we start asking these questions, ultimately the answers we get will not be satisfying, if we get answers at all. So then we must consider different actions. Change is never easy, especially when we are going against people in power. Recent opinion polls clearly indicate that the public does not want the war to continue - yet we remain. Do we sit back and wait for a new president to change things after the coming election in November?

If we do wait, how many more people and soldiers will die? Sometimes it is easy to defer decisions when they are not staring us in the face every day. Certainly with the war halfway around the globe, we do not always get daily reminders. What will it take before we demand action?

With the information presented this week from a financial perspective to human costs to the perspectives of soldiers that are or were in Iraq, there are plenty of reasons to demand action now. What will you do?

Even the markets are confirmation. Gold and silver both set new highs this week. Gold closed at $945.40 per ounce, a new all time record. Silver closed at $18.05 on Friday. Oil topped a $100 per barrel this week before closing at $99.06 on Friday. The US dollar index fell again against the other world currencies and closed at 75.54, closing in on a record low. All of these indicators are pointing to the fact that investors are losing confidence in the US economy. All of the costs of the war, additional spending, a monumental national debt, etc. are driving investors away toward safer investments. When are the creditors going to demand payment and topple the house of cards?

What will happen to you when this does happen?

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: riches being hoarded by their owner to his hurt. When those riches were lost through a bad investment and he had fathered a son, then there was nothing to support him. Ecclesiastes 5:13-14 (NASB)

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