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Victory In Ukraine Versus Peace In The World

Big Red Car — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 21:02:18 +0000

Today, I heard a lovely sermon in church. I go to this particular church because the rector gives such wonderful sermons. The church dates from three years after the end of the Civil War and is steeped in history. It sits on one of Savannah’s gorgeous squares made all the more lovely by the azaleas […]

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The Middle East — Giving Peace A Chance

Big Red Car — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 16:38:59 +0000

Since the founding of Israel in 1948, Israel and the Arabs have been at war starting with the 1948 Arab-Israel War. There have been a series of shooting wars including the 1967 War and the 1973 Yom Kippur War. In both of these wars, the Israelis emerged victorious by the skin of their teeth and […]

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Peace In The Middle East?

Big Red Car — Sat, 12 Sep 2020 21:31:27 +0000

English Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain came home from a meeting with Hitler in Munich in September 1938 with the triumphant notion that he brought with him “peace for our times” in the form of some nonsensical agreement with a treacherous tyrant, Adolf Hitler. Very few men were able to realize that you cannot make peace […]

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Middle East Peace — One Step Closer

Big Red Car — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 19:03:56 +0000

Comes now the recent rapprochement between the United Arab Emirates and the State of Israel. But, first, some background, shall we? Our country has been indelibly marked by the status of peace in the Middle East in four important ways: 1. We have supported Israel through a series of wars with the 1973 Yom Kippur […]

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Merry Christmas, Rough Men, Thank You!

Big Red Car — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 15:46:36 +0000

Big Red Car here. Getting close to Christmas and thinking of something that The Boss said once upon a time. When he was a soldier he was overseas on Christmas Day and it had an impact on him. A poignant impact. George Orwell’s famous quote George Orwell is attributed with having said the following: “People […]

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