Reagan's Warning

In his farewell address, Ronald Reagan warned that we weren't teaching our children about the greatness of America and the reality of the world. Well, this is a teachable moment. Today's news invites discussion at the dinner table. 

So, I urge parents and grandparents to help your children and grandchildren understand the nature of the world. It has always been this way, and until Messiah returns, it will always be this way. 

Tell them that Vladimir Putin is not some aberration. There is a similar man leading North Korea. There is a similar man leading communist China. There is a similar man leading the Islamic Republic of Iran. 

There are those around the world whose impulses are to rule rather than to govern, to treat people like cattle rather than free citizens. Remind them that genocide is not just something to read about in history books. There are concentration camps in communist China today.

This is a good time to remind older children and grandchildren who may not have liked Trump's style that they never saw headlines like this when he was president. 

Trump destroyed ISIS. He took out Iran's terror mastermind, General Soleimani. He told America it was time to end our dependence on Russia and China. He put in place a long overdue military buildup, and he secured our borders. 

Under Trump's tough leadership, Americans worried about the "tone" of some of his tweets. Now they have to worry about people just like them in a modern European nation being handed guns and told to defend their neighborhoods from enemy troops. Those tweets are looking pretty good at this point.