on loving your enemies

Just read a news article in which there as a poll that states that the Muslim majority countries in the middle east are suspicious that we are trying to "take over the world" and that they are even in support of Bin Laden.

Makes you wonder why we even care about people that want us dead?! Other than the fact that Jesus tells us to love our enemies, pray for them that despitefully use us, and to bless them that curse us, I don't have an answer to that one.

Guess that command really fits us now. Don't know WHY they hate us so much (and they hated us before we ever went to Iraq, or why the newspapers (American at that) would take into consideration the thoughts of people who support Bin Laden. If it were just to show waht the enemy was thinking, so we could be on guard, that would be one thing; but they have continually spouted forth anti-American rhetoric for a long time now.

It makes you wonder who's side they're really on? It makes you wonder why they refuse to talk about the good that our soldiers are doing, and the difference they have made. yes, there is chaos, and yes, there are still attacks, but wake up people!!! That has been going on long before our soldiers set foot on that soil and will continue long after they leave.

Anyway, why does this bother me so much? Because I have friends who have been in Iraq, and I have freinds who are going there. In fact, one of the guys who was going to stand for us in the wedding is being shipped out and will be unable to do so now.

So it would be nice, no matter how much the outside world hate us, if the American press could at least pretend to support our troops.

Forget the election, forget Kerry and his mud-slinging campaign or Bush and all the mistakes he's accused of making by people that didn't do a thing when ... never mind... well, forget Bush, whatever you think of him.

Just think of the troops that are sacrificing everything for their - our - country, and support them with your thoughts and prayers, and even a note of encouragement. Our newspapers sure aren't doing a very good job of it.

And perhaps, like Jusus, we should pray for the people who write the newspapers, and hope that one day, they will seek the Truth, and do our troops justice.