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smaller in size and population than
many U.S. states, have great pride
and confidence. America, on the
other hand, has lost its self-respect,
whi le endeavoring to respect the
wishes of everyone e lse.
It
is
ashamed to stand up for and defend
the principies that once made it
great. lts sole purpose now, it would
seem, is to placate other nations,
large and small, to accede to their
demands, whether reasonable or
not.
America wants to be "loved"–
even by the Cubans who are under–
mining U.S. interests all over the
world! In Africa, that mentality
means a willingness to go to almost
any length to prove its "sincerity."
Commenting on the President's trip,
even the
Washington Post
ques–
tioned the prevailing Carter/ U.N.
Ambassador Andrew Young wis–
dom of "conveying the impression
that [America] will do practically
anything to win liberationist creden–
tials."
The United Statcs is acting just
like the ancient nation of Israel , de–
scribed in highly unftattering ter–
minology in the Old Testament:
"You have played the harlot with
ma ny lovers; and would you re–
turn to me? says thc Lord" (Jer.
3: 1).
America has long since forgotten
the God in whom she officially
claims to trust. Now, in difficult
times, she is turning for help to
nations with whom she shares ·
no common bonds, nations who
ca nnot help in the long run,
"lovers" who "despise [her]" Jer.
4 :30).
.
Seek.ing the approbation of other
nations will never solve America's
problems. "Your
h~Ht
is incurable,
and your wound is grievous. There
is none to uphold your cause.... All
your lovers have forgotten you;
they
care nothing for you;
for I [God]
have dealt you the blow of an
enemy . .. because your guilt is
great, because your sins a re fla–
grant' ' (Jer. 30: 12-15).
America is a
sick
society, though
many of its own
citi~ens
do not like
to face this fact. Her rampant crime,
immorality, pornography, divorce
and broken homes a re hardly the
qualities to be emulated by others.
America's newly founded "friend-
The
PLAIN TRUTH June/July 1978
" If we run and abandon
Africa to the Kremlin
we shall have
suffered a catastrophe
from which the
free world may no longer
have the resources
or will to recover. ' '
British M. P. Stephen Hastings
ships" around the world cannot heal
her incurable interna! wounds.
Notice also Lamentations 1: 1 in
the context of Presiden! Carter's
"supplication" in Lagos: " ... she
that was great among the nations!
She that was a princess among the
cities has become a vassal."
The entire 16th chapter of the
book of Ezekiel shows how the na–
tion of Israel acted as a very strange
harlot , one who gave gifts to her
lovers, not they to her. (What better
describes U.S. policy on another key
issue: the Panama Canal. In the
hopes of earning the !ove of Pan–
ama and supposedly a ll of Latín
America, the United States is not
only desirous of giving up its strate–
gic property, but is willing to pay
Panama billions of dollars for the
privilege of doing so! Write for our
free booklet
The United States and
British Commonwea/th in Prophecy
to see the remarkable historicallink
between ancient Israel and the
English-speak.ing world today.)
In Ezekiel 16:37 , God says:
" ... behold, 1 will gather all your
lovers ... 1 will gather them against
you from every side...." Sounds
like a typical anti-U.S. vote in the
United Nations!
Whether one takes these proph–
ecies litera lly or not, such circum–
stances typify American foreign
policy today.
Calamlty Ahead
If the United States persists in pur–
suing its present course of action in
Africa- placating its enemies (sorne
of whom are now " lovers")- and
dashing the hopes of men of moder–
ation and goodwill, nothing but ut-
ter calamity will result-with the
Communists ready to pick up the
pieces.
U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater re–
marked in Washington on April 4,
1978, that he felt that "everything
the Carter Administra tion has done
in Africa has played directly into
the hands of the Soviet Union.
These actions are so obviously sub–
verting the strategic interes ts of the
Un ited States that it almost seems
that someone must be following a
delibera te scheme with pro-Soviet
overtones."
Russia could never finish the job
in Africa by herself, with or without
the Cubans. To achieve her goals,
Moscow needs the unwitting coop–
eration of Britain and the United
States.
Robert Letts Jones, a news ana–
lys t and past presiden! of Copley
Press, San Diego, recent ly delivered
a somber warning: " I feel like
a
modern-day Paul Revere. My tri–
cornered hat is as out of fashion as
my message. But I feel obligated to
warn that the trend of events con–
vulsing southern Africa spells dan–
ger for the United States. And for
Westero Europe too.
"The West is losing control of that
part of the world to the cleverly dis–
guised thrust of Soviet Russia.
" At stake a re the vast mineral re–
sources of the region, as well as the
strategic sea route around the Cape
of Good Hope. A combination of
the two, dominated eventually by
the imperialists in the Kremlin,
could, in time, force the industria l
democracies of Wes te rn Europe
to surrender to Soviet blackmail.
Then the United States would be
isolated.
"Moscow realizes that. The West
doesn't."
To which the lead edi torial in
To
the Point lnternational
(April 14,
1978) added:
"lt
was Archimedes
who 2,200 years ago said in relation
to the law of leverage: 'Give me a
place to stand and
1
will move the
earth.' Russia has found that place
to stand, namely Africa. From that
continent she intends to move the
earth in the communist direction. If
she succeeds, it will not be because
of her own strength, but because of
the West's naivete in providing the
fulcrum."
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