Celebrating Thanksgiving in a Warzone?

Celebrating Thanksgiving in a Warzone? Returning from Japan where at Thanksgiving 1950 General Douglas MacArthur had overseen the greatest US Military defeat to China; Welcomed back into New York by a parade said to contain seven million people- and asked what his policy was as it seemed certain he would become the next Republican President; He said ‘My only policy is God Bless America’. Now that triggers deep emotions in me knowing from my own conservative Bible Believing upbringing the genuine extent of support for General Mac Arthur in his proxy war in Northern Korea at Thanksgiving when effectively the American Eight Army collapsed in the face of a Chinese attack- Is knowing that the strange point of view held by Americans both in New York and in Middle America in respect of China and ‘Communism’ is a policy effectively made by our own Bible Believing Chinese Missionaries. In the P Collier D Horowitz 1976 book ‘The Rockefellers’ they tell how funded by John D in the 1930s American Foreign Policy was being formulated in China- Asia and The Pacific by a related to the Council of Foreign Relations CFR group organized by John Mott- ‘Institute of Pacific Relations’. Thus going on to become –World Council of Churches- World Missionary Conference funded by John D but organized by John Mott in New York 1900 had gone on to formalize the ‘Christian View’ for USA and the world in response to the good Chinese Christian leader Chiang Kai Shek being replaced by Mao’s successful Chinese Communist administration and the missionaries understandable expelled! The to the point of insanity- hardening attitude of MacArthur who had invited Stalin’s Russian forces into Korea in the first place at the end of WW2- This insane better dead than red cursing saw Thanksgiving 1950 in ‘The Coldest Winter’ David Halberstan 2007 – as one survivor told me meeting him on a Habitat for Humanity build- Saw typically in his unit one hundred entering the battle and only ten emerging alive and devastated. Yes Celebrate Thanksgiving! But what I am questioning here is some of the basic assumptions that the US Military ever knew what they were fighting- and how to fight in in particular engagement… And Questioning the advice which Chinese Missionaries gave- myself having interview and mixed with them as a child while quietly building up an understanding of what Mao and his fellow comrades were attempting- Opposed every step of the way for twenty five years by USA- Attempting to do for China. I do genuinely admire John D. Like Adolf Hitler he is a unique and worthy of study individual in world history. When chaos reigned in the first years of the oil industry he began a process which made him humanities first successful billionaire and forgetting –Same as Adolf- Democracy! Used his lawyers and bribes to twist and out maneuver popular government setting the situation we have been examining here where the actual decisions as to how conflicts are fought and foreign policy is outworked is made in New York think tanks funded by interested international corporations. The Republican- Free enterprise way- things get decided in New York and the actors are in Washington. Now to conclude- Deeply disturbing as this post maybe… Two things lead me to say it. When John Mott arguably the most important Christian International Statesman out of New York our ranking Billy Graham- when he comes up before Jesus –Jesus responds to what he tells him in and interesting way. Matthew 7:23 Then on the New Zealand equivalent of John D Junior’s influence in evangelical Bible Believing Christianity- sponsoring Billy Graham’s efforts… Well much more hands on that John D we had 50 years ago –Robert Laidlaw whose damage to the New Zealand church by persecuting ‘Saints’ (Tongues Shall Cease’ –Prof P Lineham 1982- Massy University Library) is despite the jubilee year- On going with a theological institute continuing the Laidlaw legacy! But also in 1982 Rev David Pawson visited New Zealand and predicted- it hasn’t happened… The Economic Collapse would come so that revival can come with the big money men swept away and the church once again lead by a poor crucified Jew on a donkey! And with his message to the New Zealand church in 1982 largely ignored and rejected Pawson found comfort in ‘The Commando Army Prophecy’. Thanksgiving in a war zone? Well any way some of us have lived as commandos for decades! Shalom.