Chemical Weapons: Do We Have the Moral High Ground?

As I watched the President's address to the nation a little over a week ago concerning Syria and the use of chemical weapons, I was struck by something. By God's grace, our president has had the wisdom and moral ability to declare the use of chemical weapons on innocent men, women and children an outrage. We cannot turn a blind eye to such horror and evil. He called our nation to action saying, “with modest effort and risk, we can stop children from being gassed to death and thereby make our own children safer over the long run . . . .”

But, the fact is that we do turn a blind eye in this country to the use of chemical weapons on innocent children. In fact, they are used on children who have absolutely no where to run and, who though they are hidden from sight, have no where to hide from impending destruction. The safety of the mother's womb is often turned into a death chamber, and the doctors who swear to protect patients only listen to the patient with a voice while ignoring the one who cannot speak. Hundreds of thousands of children are killed by chemical and medical abortions each year in this country.

Pray for our President to see our national hypocrisy on this issue. Ask God to give him grace to see the blood of the innocent that we are spilling. And ask that God might give him courage to use his position as president to "make our own children safer over the long run...." 

If you are interested, here is an letter at the Desiring God blog to the President that communicates similar ideas entitled "Protect the Children from Chemical Weapons."