Original Post – June 24, 2007
The application of US Power, in all of its represented forms, has a net value serving as a stabilizing force to the rest of the world. This stabilizing force gives an opportunity to the people around the world to provide for their most basic needs; food, shelter, education, and hope [opportunity]. What we have learned over the past 2 centuries is that Democracy cannot come to the ignorant. It cannot come to the people starving, cold, or hopeless. It must be the express purpose of a more enlightened people with the largesse and education to recognize what they do have and where they might wish to grow. It must be the purpose of every government to raise their people up. It must be the responsibility of every government to raise their people to a level of God, to humanity, and to respect. Only to that end can Democracy hope to flourish and survive.
To serve the purpose of God and the people of God is to say that this is the very same purpose of the United States. By extension, providing a light and spilling its treasure in the the service of other peoples by spreading the good-will of God and his people, the US serves the world. In service to the world, by paying the many costs, the US can enrich itself.
In the act of this service, choosing the sometimes more difficult and costly path, any people will recieve the vitrol and anger of others in opposition. Though it is always better to have the love and respect of the world, we should rather opt for the hatred of the world then allow the world to breed evil, discord, and distrust.
Our works in the Middle-East may have been led astray but we can still renew and make right. By applying our focus and vision, to serve a righteous purpose – to stabilize the region and allow for hope and opportunity, the US can resist the intentions of evil men and the nature of evil itself.
