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Christian Democide and American Foreign
policy: The Bush/Obama Middle East Disaster
by Jack Kettler
Democide is a term defined by the political
scientist R. J. Rummel as “the murder of any
person or people by their government, including
genocide, politicide and mass murder.” According
to Rummel, democide passed war as the leading
cause of non-natural death in the 20th century.
Moving into the 21st Century, it show no signs
of stopping.
A Christocentric view of current events in
the Middle East:
By Christocentric I mean, a theology that openly
and without apology makes Christ, the cardinal
message, from which all other theological and
political positions are evaluated.
I'm writing this as an appeal for Christian
leaders to speak up to help save Syrian and
other Middle Eastern Christians. If the
anti-Christian Syrian rebels trying to overthrow
the Syrian government are successful, it will
lead to the almost certain genocide of
Christians in Syria like we are now witnessing
in Iraq. The U.S. Democracy debacle in Iraq has
led to the displacement and slaughter of almost
the entire Christian community in
Iraq.
As a Christian, I'm becoming increasingly
concerned about the destruction of Christian
communities around the world and the murder of
tens of thousands of Christians, particularly in
the Middle East. That is why I am speaking out.
I'm not an apologist for any regime in the
Middle East, since it is well known that I'm a
relentless critic of Islam. My motivation is to
help stop the almost certain slaughter of
Christians in Syria, if the present government
is overthrown.
Christianity was spreading in the Middle East
until U.S. Policy shifted to spreading
Democracy:
For example, Victor Atallah, is an Egyptian born
Presbyterian missionary to the Middle East,
based in Cyprus. Mr. Atallah told me personally
that he had been in Iraq and Baghdad prior to
Saddam Hussein's overthrow by the Bush regime
and how there were two large Christian Churches
in Baghdad that he visited. It is uncertain of
these churches existence today. At the time, Mr.
Ahallah's radio broadcast from Cyprus was heard
in Iraq and bearing fruit. Mr. Atallah works
with MERF the Middle East Reformed Fellowship
Ideas have consequences that are not
always good:
Saddam Hussein, as bad as he was, kept the
warring Muslim factions in check and protected
the Christian community, which dated back to
biblical times. Iraq under Saddam Hussein did
not have democracy, nor were weapons of mass
destruction found, yet there was freedom for
Christians, some even served in high government
positions such as the one time Deputy Prime
Minister Tariq Aziz.
I'm deeply concerned about Obama's new plan to
support the so-called moderate Syrian rebels
whose chief goal is the overthrown the Syrian
government, and what will happen to the large
Christian community in Syria if this happens.
What guarantee is there that these rebels will
do anything to fight ISIS as promised? ISIS is
growing rapidly in numbers and funding. The only
government that has any chance to hold them off
is Syria.
No apologies yet from the Neocons who tried
to spread the evil form of government our
founding fathers warned us against, democracy.
From someone who has to experience the fruits
of what the democracy promoters tried:
"We have gained nothing. Literally nothing. We
may have had an evil dictator, but now we have
total terrorism. We use to have Saddam. Now we
have thousands." - Rev. Canon Andrew White,
chaplain of St. George's Anglican Church in
Baghdad
Regarding Syria, U.S. Senator Rand Paul
understands what can happen:
“Think what would have happened had we seriously
degraded Assad to the point where he was
overrun, think who would be in charge of Syria
right now?” Senator Paul asked before answering
his own rhetorical question: ”ISIS.”
What happens to Christians around the world
when current U.S. Policy of spreading
democracy is implemented?
Iraq
In Iraq, Christians numbered nearly 2 million in
2003, representing just over 5% of the
population of the country. This is before the
Bush/Obama disaster. Now there are fewer and
500,000. This was the estimate before the Sunni
Jihadists started rampaging through the country
to establish the caliphate and a nation base for
their savage blood thirsty plans to conquer the
whole world.
Syria
The total number of Christians, in Syria not
including Iraqi refugee Christians, numbers
about 1.7 million or about 12% of the
population. In Syria, both Christians and
Muslims serve in the military, and are fighting
for their lives against the jihadist backed U.S.
Christ hating rebels.
Libya
Christians numbered around 100,000 in Libya.
Thanks to U.S. policy under Obama and his top
Republican interventionist cheerleader, John
McCain, the entire community may have been
exterminated. As of now, the country is
destroyed and almost all Western diplomats have
left the country. Right now, jihadists are
swimming in the U.S. Embassy pool in Tripoli,
the capital.
Egypt
In Egypt, there are about 10 million Christians.
Thankfully, the U.S. Obama / Hillary Clinton
backed Muslim Brotherhood government was
overthrown by the Egyptian military.
In particular, what happened in Iraq after
installing Democracy?
“Bush and his neocons in their witless crusade
for democracy smashed holes in all those state
structures. Their relentless insistence on
general elections across the region as soon as
possible fatally undermined the government of
President Hosni Mubarak in Egypt and brought
Hamas to power in Gaza... The absurdity and
futility of the Bush-Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz
'democracy-building dream' in Iraq is now
exposed for all to see. Instead, the Islamist
jihadi tidal wave is sweeping all in sight.”1
President Bush however honorable he is compared
to Obama, miserably fails the test when
evaluated in terms of a Christocentric policy
analysis. The current slaughter of Christians
would not be happening without his overthrown of
Saddam Hussein. After Saddam's removal, there is
no government to counter Iranian influence in
the region. The Bush foreign policy created a
disastrous power vacuum.
Why would Bush want to spread democracy
anywhere considering:
“As democracy is perfected, the office of
president represents, more and more closely, the
inner soul of the people. On some great and
glorious day the plain folks of the land will
reach their heart's desire at last and the White
House will be adorned by a downright moron.” -
H.L. Mencken
In the Bush installed democracy in Iraq, how did
recent prime minister Nouri al-Maliki work out?
Was he a moron? How is our own current
narcissistic golf playing dim whit working out?
Our own moron got elected twice by promising
stupid people free stuff. Democracy and Islam
are not compatible. In fact, democracy and Islam
equal radical Islam.
In his important study, The Heresy of Democracy
(1955), Lord Percy of Newcastle declared of
democracy that it is “philosophy which is
nothing less than a new religion” (p.
16).2 In fact, democracy is evil!
Some thoughts supporting my last assertion:
“Democracy has nothing to do with freedom.
Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and
rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken
for anything else.” - Hans-Herman Hoppe
“Hence it is that democracies have ever been
spectacles of turbulence and contention; have
ever been found incompatible with personal
security or the rights of property; and in
general have been as short in their lives as
they have been violent in their deaths.” James
Madison, Federalist Papers No. 10 (1787).
“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule,
where fifty-one percent of the people may take
away the rights of the other forty-nine.” Thomas
Jefferson
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon
wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There
never was a democracy yet that did not commit
suicide.” John Adams
“Pure democracy cannot subsist long nor be
carried far into the departments of state – it
is very subject to caprice and the madness of
popular rage.” - John Witherspoon
It is high time for Christians to wake up and
stop supporting politicians who engage in nation
building, and spreading the insidious form of
government religion called democracy, which in
the case of the Middle East is leading to the
extermination of Christianity throughout the
whole region!
Current U.S. foreign policy is responsible for
tens of thousands of Christians in the Middle
East being murdered and displaced. Ideas have
consequences, and current U.S. policy has been a
catastrophe for the historic Christian
communities in the Middle East. Closer to home,
instead of flooding America with countless
hordes of Islamic immigrants, some of whom will
become jihadists, we need to provide sanctuary
in the U. S. for Middle Eastern Christians that
have been driven from their homes.
And finally, I say that is time to pray for God
to remove corrupt leaders and to raise up Godly
ones who fear God and who will seek to protect
Christ's Church.
Notes:
1. Marttin Sieff, Blame
Iraq on George W. Bush and the GOP, is the
author of several award winning books including:
“The Politically Incorrect Guide to the
Middle East” (Regnery, 2008). He has
received three Pulitzer Prize nominations for
international reporting.
2. THE HERESY
OF DEMOCRACY WITH GOD by Rousas John Rushdoony
[From Chalcedon Position Paper No.6]
Mr. Kettler has previously published articles in
the Chalcedon Report and Contra Mundum. He and his
wife Marea attend the Westminster, CO, RPCNA
Church. Mr. Kettler is the author of the book
defending the Reformed Faith against attacks,
titled: The Religion That Started in a Hat.
Available at:
http://www.thereligionthatstartedinahat.com/
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