world events

Every so often, I depart from the religious theme of the blog for something in the world. This citation from Winston Churchill in volume 1 of his work "The World Crisis", which looks at the conflict we call World War I, seems eerily prophetic in speaking to our battle against Islamofascism in the 21st century after the end of the Cold War.

The growth of the great antagonisms abroad was accompanied by the progressive aggravation of party strife at home. The scale on which events have shaped themselves, has dwarfed the episodes of the Victorian Era. Its small wars between great nations, its earnest disputes about superficial issues, the high, keen intellectualism of its personages, the sober, frugal, narrow limitations of their action, belong to a vanquished period. The smooth river with its eddies and ripples along which we then sailed, seems inconceivably remote from the cataract down which we have been hurled and the rapids in whose turbulence we are now struggling.