Originally Posted by SilentKnight

With regards to the two Canadian and one British hostages recently rescued (not released) in Iraq.

The media was quick to report that it took the so-called "Christian peacemakers" twelve hours to thank their rescuers and they did so only after a public uproar pointing out their very un-Christian ingratitude at not having done so immediately and profusely.

But I'd like to point out a wider aspect to the troubling practices of such "Christian peacemakers."

Why are they not engaged in their activities in parts of the world where they do not enjoy the protection of American, British and Canadian Armed Forces. These "Christian peacemaker" types consider our military to be "oppressive invaders". Why are they not in North Korea, Red China, Russia, Vietnam, Cuba and why have they not been there all along?

Why, instead, do they employ the freedoms of Western societies against the efforts of those very societies to bring democracy to regions suffering from Muslim or Communist oppression?

These so-called "Christian peacemakers" are hardly Christian, or peacemakers. They are agents of Communist subversion; they are what the late Robert Kennedy called "Masters of Deceit" after the book of that title.

To give just one example of the type of oppression practiced by Communist regimes: there are at least 7 million Chinese Catholic Christians in the gulags of Guangzhou Province on the Eastern coast of Red China, suffering under conditions at least as severe as those of Stalin's gulags, which Alexander Solzhenitsyn described in his three-volume work, 'The Gulag Archipelago' for which he won a Nobel Prize for Literature, and for which he was sent by the Communist rulers of Russia into external exile, having already spent years in those very same gulags of Stalin and years of internal exile in Russia.

The usual way that one escapes from a Communist gulag, whether it be Russian, Chinese, North Korean, Vietnamese or Cuban is by going underground...permanently and horizontally.

Why are the "Christian Peacemakers" not in Red China?

Its not difficult to figure out. I think we all know why.