Timothy Birdnow

Numbers 21:28
"For a fire went forth from Heshbon, A flame from the town of Sihon; It devoured Ar of Moab, The dominant heights of the Arnon.

In yesterday's post "The Coming Day of the Sun" I expressed hopes that our government knows what it is doing at the end. North Korea's growing nuclear capabilities now give it, per the power to strike the U.S. and perhaps well beyond the loss of a city or two. What would we do? How to deter Korea and avoid any unpleasant entanglements with China or Russia?

Turns out I needn't have worried; we droppped The Mother of All Bombs to show we could take out underground nuclear sites.

The GBU43/b Massive Ordinance Air Blast (MOAB) aka the Mother of All Bombs is the most powerful non-nuclear explosive device ever created by the united States. Designed to destroy deep underground bunkers, this weapon can take out underground missile silos and research facilities as well as simple tunnels and spiderholes. (I find it ironic that the things is called MOAB, as the Moabites were destroyed utterly by the wrath of the Lord and now nothing but ruins stand where they once had flourished in the Dead Sea area.) Donald Trump's authorization to use this wicked little toy bespeaks a very keen sense of aggressive military policy, no doubt suggested by the Generals on his staff. It's why it was good Trump picked military men and not academic weenies for these positions. Trum is a man who understands the importance of personnell and personal experience.

This was the best action he could have taken outside of boots on the ground, which is NOT the optimal solution. Many people are complaining, saying they voted for Trump because he wasn't a neocon. Well, he may have kept us out of war by doing precisely what he just did. A strong response now cows the Koreans, the Russians, the Chinese, ISIS. This makes it clear we will use our extraordinary power if needs must, and if we do...

Under Obama, America was the big, soft, gentle kid the bullies kicked in the behind. Not anymore, and the whole world now knows it. Even crazy Kim has been put on notice, and he may well pull in his horns.

As for Kim Jong Un, he was speeding down a very treacherous road and had to be slowed down. He is the kind of guy who would actually pull the rigger because he has bluffed one time too many and now he has to show he means it. If you could stop a guy like that in the bluff stage you can stop him. Better yet to stop him when he has nothing to bluff with. But Obama let him run wild, and now our only option was to make this sort of demonstration to show we were serious - and then if he continues we will have to use weapons against him. MOAB shows we can get to his nuclear framework. It may hurt his pride to reduce his weapons program, but it would hurt it more to lose it all. And, as I say, if we let him complete it he will not be satisfied, and his need to keep his subjects believing in his godhead will force him to use those weapons.

A single bomb now may have saved the world. A Nork nuke could have started the Big One. This was not a neocon style New World Order type action but a warning shot across the bow of the Queen Kim's Revenge. Ronald Reagan certainly did more than this. Anyone remember when he bombed Libya, killing Khadaffi's daughter? And it worked; Kahadaffi actually became our ally, helping us in the war on terror - until Hillary, Susan Rice, and the third sister Harpie Valerie Jarrott decided to remove him and replace him with ISIS. See, Khadaffi (Ghadaffi, Quadaffi, and any other spelling you choose0 figured it was better to be a live tyrant than a dead Islamic martyr. He couldn't be reasoned with through words but bombs from the sky made a more telling point.

So Kudos to our President and his staff here. I know there are many who think this was a return to interventionism, but in my book it was a necessary action well played. Trump may well have avoided war with this one action.


Jeremiah 48:

.36 Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres: because the riches that he hath gotten are perished.
.37 For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
38 There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith the LORD.
39 They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all them about him.

.40 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.
41 Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
42 And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against the LORD.
.43 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD.
44 He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the LORD

45 They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.
46 Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh perisheth: for thy sons are taken captives, and thy daughters captives.

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