The Taliban and the USS Ship of Fools

 We can love our enemies only after we have defeated them.  -The Taliban

So Amerika spent twenty years and billions of dollars fighting an enemy in Afghanistan that they were unwilling to name, then they walk away taking their wounded, leaving others to die at the hands of ruthless thugs motivated by the religion of Islam.  The bible clearly tells us that our battle is a spiritual one that cannot be won with bullets yet we continue to test that reality in every generation.  There is obviously a time for everything including war but fighting a religion with bombs only is always going to be a failure.  People whose hearts have been trained for war by a prophet of war can only be won by changing their hearts, and only Jesus Christ can do that.  When the root of the problem is never addressed, mere patriotism is a weak solution.  Uncle Sam shed no blood for our sins.  We cannot win hearts and minds simply by political means.  Read through the Book of Acts and we can see how false prophets were addressed.  Peter rebuked Simon the sorcerer, and Elymas was struck blind by the words of apostle Paul.  Unless we fight these demonic powers in prayer and public preaching we are soon to see things worse than Antifa on our streets.  With an open southern border Islamic fighters are simply walking into their next land of conquest while we play with our cell phones and look the other way.  Then we naively believe Muslims who point to a few peaceful surahs in the Quran and think we are getting the truth from a religion that is based on lies, deception and terror.