BY RUSSELL TURNER
IN THE BELLY OF A HORSE
I have found that some people learn from history and others just like to ignore history and delude themselves into believing what they would want history to be instead of what it was. I have always enjoyed reading about ancient civilizations; we may think that the problems that we face today are unique and no other civilization has had to deal with similar problems, but we would be very wrong. Sadly war and the quest for conquest has always been a part of the human condition. The ancient story about the fall of the city of Troy has a lot in common with current events. The citizens of Troy had withstood countless invasion attempts, but their success and overconfidence would eventually be their downfall. When the ancient Greeks failed to take the city they used the Trojan Horse to get some of their people into the city to open the gates, which would allow them to conquer the city. The people of Troy acted foolishly when they assumed the Greeks had given up and left them a trophy of a huge wooden horse by the gates of the city. For some reason the people of Troy carried the trophy inside the walls and had a huge drunken celebration. Because of that action the city fell and became a member of countless cultures who were defeated and ceased to exist. The actions of our president makes me believe that he either doesn’t understand history or he is so full of himself he doesn’t care.
Our nation has always welcomed people from all parts of the world who wished to come here to start a new life, accept our way of life, and have a desire to become Americans. While many of the people coming from Syria are good people and want a better life, our own intelligence agencies are warning us that there are ISIS fighters who have infiltrated the flow of refugees and are intent on causing as much mayhem as possible in our country. Instead of heeding the warning our president is hell bent upon allowing piles of people into our country that we know nothing about. While the administration claims that they have a ROBUST vetting process, I have some serious concerns about their ability to screen these people. Our government can’t even screen the criminals from our neighbor to the south or competently operate an E-verify system.
The thugs of ISIS have stated openly that they have the desire to kill anyone who does not agree with their brand of religion and they will hide their fighters in the belly of a horse or in a flood of refugees. We need to slow down this process and create a safe zone for these people in Syria and make sure that the people wanting to come to this country are not coming here to kill as many of us as they can.
I have a suggestion for the Obama Administration; maybe he should put Lois Lerner in charge of the questioning and use the same drive that she used when she had the IRS go after the conservative groups here in the USA. The IRS has no problem stripping you naked and picking your bones if you don’t have every i dotted or t crossed. We Americans are tired of the arrogance and stupidity of allowing our citizens to be put at risk; we don’t want to experience the same fate at the people of Paris, France.
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