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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, MARCH 2, 1984
Setting
aside the press blather about the "greatest military
buildup in history," the
U.S.
Navy is half the size it was in
1964.... Domestically, the nation's largest party, the Democrats,
has become an active impediment to a realistic foreign policy-
with its "leaders" falling all over one another, demanding
immediate
U.S.
withdrawal from the small threatened, friendly
country of Honduras, where we have every right to be, after a
single American pilot was killed by the Sandinistas.
American conservatives, and the military, too, are reluctant to
commit American forces where vital national interests are not di
rectly and visibly threatened--because they believe the American
left will discredit, undermine and eventually destroy the effort.
Most important, the American people are no longer willing to
allow the shedding of American blood...because of domestic
disunity and policy disagreements...• The reason the Kissinger
Commissions' s recommendations were so warmly received is that
Henry urged we send money, not men, to win the war in Central
America.
The future has always belonged to those willing to fight for it,
no ir.atter their motive.
We Americans, and Westerners, are
not.... Twenty years ago, James Burnham wrote of a philosophy of
suicide that had taken hold in the West, a death wish. One mani
festation is that all the offspring and allies of the West, still
fighting to defend their liberty and national identity--South
Africa and Israel, the Afghan rebels and the Nicaraguan
''Contras," the regime in El Salvador and the UNITA force of Jonas
Savimbi are condemned, disparaged or abandoned.
The
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Gramm r 's
11
and Today's Music: A Reflection
of America s Rotting Culture
On February 28, pop-and-rock sensation Michael Jackson set a "Grammy"
record by finishing first in eight categories in the record industry's 26th
annual awards ceremony.
Jackson is such a sensation that his "smash"
album, "Thriller," could sell as high as 35 million copies worldwide this
year. No solo album has ever sold more than 12 million.
For the awards ceremony, Jackson was dressed gaudily as usual, in a
spangled uniform with epaulets and sequined right glove. His high, squeaky
voice showed that he would never pass first-year speech class at Ambassador
College. (I can see it now: "Michael, you have to lower your voice and
speak outl Repeat after me:
Up, up, up, around, around, around, down,
down, DOWN
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However, for sheer abominability a group performing a number from a certain
stage-show album stole the show.
Five men came out dressed in "drag"
(women's clothes). Four of them receded, with the fifth proceeding into a
solo. Dressed in evening gown, make-up, the works, the baritone boomed out
the words, "I am what I am." In the song, he defiantly defended his right
to be and act the way he appeared. Afterwards, the audience applauded,
naturally--confirming the truism of Proverbs 28:4: "Those who forsake the
law praise the wicked."