The U.S. is fighting Israel's religious war

Charles Krauthammer's idea is better than attacking Iran. His holocaust declaration saying we will nuke any country that nukes Israel will act as a deterrent. Mr. Krauthammer has long supported a Wilsonian type foreign policy. I think he may be reevaluating his strategy. His, and many other people's first priority for the U.S. is, the security of Israel.

Our primary objective is to promote Judea/Christian values throughout the world. That was why we helped South Korea against the atheist communists from the north. Now South Korea boasts one of the largest Christian missionary communities. Twenty three were captured and released last year in Afghanistan.

The same was true of Vietnam. We could not let the atheist North Vietnamese Communist take over the South. Senator John Kennedy had met and respected Ngo Dinh Diem, a Catholic. http://www.reformation.org/chapter7.html ("One of the first moves was the selection of a man fit for the task. This was ready at hand. His name Ngo Dinh Diem. Diem had been carefully groomed by the Catholic establishment, was an ardently religious person, a fanatical anti-Communist, and a ruthless religious and political dogmatist. He had been watched for some time, both by the Vatican and certain individuals in the U.S. When the moment for the choice came, the decision was taken, mostly by American Catholics, the best known of these being Cardinal Spellman, Joe Kennedy and his son the future President John F. Kennedy, and last but not least, by John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, and their secret entourage.")

In 2007 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was in Vietnam asking them to allow more religious freedoms. I doubt if she wants Islam to be the religion that grows in Vietnam.

We have supported Buddhist, Muslim and Christian tyrants, but never an atheist. We allied with the Russian atheists to defeat Hitler. As soon as the victory was complete we declared Russia an enemy.

But why should I be forced to support one religious group in their centuries old war? It was a mistake to support the state of Israel in 1947 without the consent of the other countries in the region. Too many people in the west felt guilty about not preventing the holocaust, as they should.

The west was anti Semitic in the 30s and 40s. Only after the holocaust did western guilt set in. The west thought it would be a good thing to give the Jews a country of their own. Then the Jews would be thousands of miles away, in the desert. Out of sight, out of mind.

Israel started out as an underdog. During her 60 years of existences she has never lost a war. Now she has lost world support because of her power and aggression. The result is to have the United States fight her wars, like the United States fought for the Catholic Church in the Vietnam War.

You are forced to chose sides and contribute money to a religious state in a religious war. If you voluntarily give money to Israel's enemies you may go to jail. The Muslims who hate Israel immigrate to America and are forced to pay taxes that support Israel!

I think any Jew who owned private land, even if it was one hectare, had the right in 1947 to declare their independence and call their state Israel, no matter where they lived. They did not have the right to compel me to provide them support and protection.

If we wanted to protect the Jews, we should allow them to immigrate to America and give them part of New Jersey. In a few years peace will return to the Middle East and Jews will be visiting the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, and living a safe and prosperous life in their new homeland, New Israel.

A conservative estimate of the Iraq war cost is now $500 billion per year. http://zfacts.com/p/447.html That amount, paying each employee $100,000 per year, would employ 5 million people to staff our border patrol, coast guard, and immigration ports! Keeping the Muslims out would go a long way toward protecting the U.S. However that would not be protecting Israel. Spending $500 billion here, in the U.S. would be a Keynesian dream. That would be some economic stimulus package.

And you thought religious wars ended in 1648. People will argue against my theory that religion is a big factor in the U.S. involvement in Israel's affairs. Suppose all Jews were atheists, or Muslim. Would there ever have been a Zionist state created? Of course not. This does not mean atheists are peace loving people. Stalin and Mao were non religious, brutal, tyrants.

The Catholic lobby supported and encouraged German Catholics, under Hitler, to fight against Russian communism. The Catholic lobby urged the U.S. to fight against communism in Asia to protect 400 years of Catholic growth in the area. Now the Israel lobby is entangling the U.S. in their war.

Communism failed to make inroads in America during the 1930s and 40s because the American workers were devoutly Catholic or Protestant. President Roosevelt deftly diluted the lure of communism by enacting his own communistic programs, while remaining a Christian nation.

Today, April 15, 2008, Pope Benedict XVI arrived in the United States. President Bush made the unusual gesture of greeting Benedict at Andrews Air Force Base — the first time he has welcomed a foreign leader there. Now that's power, when the head of a religious state, Vatican City, that is .17 square miles in size and with a population of less than a 1000, can command the President of the United States greets him.

Maybe the wars were really not about dogma. Maybe they were about property. If the communist had taken over Germany or Asia, they would have seized a fortune in Catholic property. The communist mob rulers and the Catholic mob rulers went to war over property and an opulent lifestyle. The mobs' foot soldiers fought for dogma and patriotism.

Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war,
with the cross of Jesus going on before.
Christ, the royal Master, leads against the foe;
forward into battle see his banners go!

Charles Tolleson