Pastor Chuck Baldwin, candidate for Vice President of the United States on the United States Constitution Party, asks a revealing question: Should Christians support the President’s decision to promote a tax-payer subsidized globalist army? The following is exerpted from his newsletter:
Writing for The Washington Times, Bill Gertz reported, “The Pentagon and State Department are planning to set up a 75,000-member international peacekeeping force for Africa, senior Bush administration officials told Congress yesterday.”
The report continued by saying,”[Deputy Secretary of State Richard] Armitage said, ‘What we envision is about a 75,000- person force, starting in Africa, [for] the training of peacekeepers, people to be available for peacekeeping.’ The force will cost about $660 million over five years, with 20 percent of the money coming from State Department funds and the rest from the Defense Department. The program is called the Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI).”
The report also quoted Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz as saying, “In most cases, the U.S.-funded peacekeeping force would operate under a U.N. mandate.” Wolfowitz was also quoted as saying, “an international force that could be used for peacekeeping operations would reduce ‘the stresses’ on U.S. forces.”...
If the Washington Times had reported that President Bill Clinton was pushing for a standing UN army, conservatives would be “up in arms” about it. They would be howling their disapproval, even demanding that Clinton be removed from office. There would also be those who would doubtless call him a traitor to his country and an egregious usurper of national sovereignty.
Since it is G.W. Bush, however, who is the one calling for a standing UN army (at U.S. taxpayer’s expense, no less), those same conservatives will sheepishly offer no resistance whatsoever.Beyond that, they will totally ignore this wretched plan and some will even deny that Bush would even contemplate such a plan. The blind loyalty of conservatives to President Bush defies logic, reason, Christian principle, and even old fashioned common sense.
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