Friday, November 20, 2009

A Matter of Virtue

I am reading 1917: Red Banners, White Mantle (Warren Carroll, Christendom Press, Front Royal, Virginia, 1981). The carnage of WWI continues. I hate to think of all of the reparation that is required to atone for the sins of that war alone.

When President Wilson jumped into peace negotiations, he refused to accept the crowned heads of Europe as legitimate spokesmen for their countries. He saw it as the duty of the United States to "pave the way for democracy". Almost a hundred years later we are reaping the fruits of that democracy-turned-socialism. It takes me back to the issue that government is only as good as it's rulers are virtuous. Let us pray.

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