Quotes About Intervention

and with great solemnity, 'I'm glad yer stopped 'em fighting. I'm scared

the Mujahideen in Afghanistan, the first Gulf war.

As I have indicated, Paul (along with other apostles) taught that Jesus was soon to return from heaven in judgment on the earth. The coming end of all things was a source of continuous fascination for early Christians, who by and large expected that God would soon intervene in the affairs of the world to overthrow the forces of evil and establish his good kingdom, with Jesus at its head, here on earth.

Jesus taught that the age he lived in was controlled by forces of evil but that God would soon intervene to destroy everything and everyone opposed to him. God would then bring in a good, utopian kingdom on earth, where there would be no more pain and suffering. Jesus himself would be the ruler of this kingdom, with his twelve disciples serving under him. And all this was to happen very soon—within his own generation. This

This situation is not quite beyond saving, but should you carry on much further - should you give voice to such thoughts - it will be.

Most American-sponsored "regime change" operations have, in the end, weakened rather than strengthened American security.

Americans overthrew governments only when economic interests coincided with ideological ones.

modern Afghan history shows that "an ounce of nation-building prevention will be worth a pound of military-operation cure.

President Johnson soon Americanized the war that resulted in the death of a generation.

For God's sake," one secular Afghan warned the Americans during this period, "you're financing your own assassins!

From the vantage point of history, however, it is clear that most of these operations actually weakened American security. They cast whole regions of the world into upheaval, creating whirlpools of instability from which undreamed-of threats arose years later.

War, 46. 267. Bunyan, Intervention, 277

Whenever righteousness falters and chaos threatens to prevail, I take on a human body and manifest myself on earth.

My teenage son is rebellious and on drugs. No matter what I try, he won't listen to me. What can I do?

Handwashing, midwifery, mosquito control, and especially the protection of drinking water by public sewerage and chlorinated tap water would come to save billions of lives.

It's always difficult to tell someone when they're still in love with someone that I think they're going in the wrong way.

When it's not just naïveté, the attempt to rescue someone is often fuelled by vanity and narcissism.

The author of 2 Enoch follows a tradition in which an aged mother, who had been barren up to her deathbed, miraculously conceived Melchizedek without human intervention. Before she was able to give birth to the baby she died. The baby then emerged from her dead body with the maturity of a three-year-old boy.

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.

There is never a time when a president can act to stop a tragedy from occurring without being held politically accountable one way or the other. If he does it and fails, he's wrong. If he does it and succeeds, he was never right because it didn't happen. If we go in and stop an act of genocide, we can't prove what we stopped.

Wars are bound to occur from time to time. In them is manifested that determination of nature to intervene directly in the evolution of the greatest organisms of the earth, though they strive to withdraw themselves from her influence, and to break it forcibly upon their one-sided and purely economic aims.

Only a miracle can save us from such whirlpools. This miracle has happened, even countless times, when a man stepped out of the lifeless numbers to extend a helping hand to others.

Le plus souvent notre meilleur côté ne dépend pas de nous, il est confié à l'initiative d'un inconnu qui vient le réveiller par hasard.