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Murphy Martin Commentary
October 12, 2006
"How Much Will It Hold?"
A kook ties ten Amish girls age six
to thirteen together and shoots each of them in the head--five died
and another is not expected to survive!
The brother of Iraqi Vice-President Tariq al-Hashimi was murdered
this week, the third of the politician's four siblings to be
murdered this year!
A Witness in the genocide trial of Saddam Hussein testifies that his
troops buried prisoners alive during Hussein's crackdown on the
Kurds in the late 1980s when use of poison gas on villages claimed
up to 150-thousand lives!
House Speaker Dennis Hastert has yet to settle the questions about
what he knew and when he knew it about the shockingly bad behavior
of Rep. Mark Foley!
That ammo-storage facility fire provided pictures that looked like
all of Baghdad was in flames!
And if these stories were not enough, here comes Kim Jung Il jumping
to the center of the world stage to announce a successful
underground Nuclear Test!
Reaction to that was swift. It seems like only a few months ago as
Bill Clinton took office in 1993, North Korea threatened to abandon
the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty it signed in 1985 and
prohibited international weapons inspectors from entering the
country. That Treaty bans countries from acquiring or developing
Nuclear weapons.
The Clinton Administration negotiated an "agreed framework" in 1994
and the North Koreans supposedly froze their nuclear program in
exchange for energy and more normalized relations with the United
states.
George W. Bush has had a more aggressive posture toward Kim Jong
Il's government and in his State of The Union Address in 2002
President Bush listed North Korea as an "axis of evil" along with
Iraq and Iran. In October of 2002 he challenged North Korea's
efforts claiming it was trying to develop a second secret program to
enrich uranium for nuclear weapons and the 1994 agreement collapsed.
On Monday of this week, President Bush told South Korea, Japan and
other allies in the region that the United states will "continue to
protect ourselves and our interests." He added that the claim of a
successful nuclear test only serves to raise tensions while
depriving the North Korean people of increased prosperity and better
relations with the world!
China called the North Korean move "brazen." Very few nations
expressed anything but disdain for the North Korean move. All this
before North Korea threatened to test nuclear devices on missiles!
As we look around us at our world today---the many appalling
developments, we are reminded of a thought some say when all around
them seems to be crumbling: "The world seems to be going to Hell in
a hand-basket!"
We see a lot of Hellish things here... there.... and, most
everywhere!
But I am beginning to wonder: JUST HOW MUCH WILL THAT HAND-BASKET
HOLD?
Murphy Martin
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