ISIS, is this our next Viet Nam?

I thought that the President's message to the people last night was well written and well delivered. He addressed the issues and I believe addressed them in a good balanced way. I did appreciate his comment that even though we try to eradicate evil from the world it will always be here. Try as we must to eliminate those who perpetrate evil on others we can never eliminate it completely. Why you ask? Because man has a sin nature and that sin nature will never be gone until Jesus comes again and sets up a new heaven and a new earth.

So, while the message was good and I believe that he confronts the issue well in stating that it can not be a United States only response, it must include the Arab nations as well, it still speaks of a trap that the United States has walked into before.

What is that trap? Well, it is sending 450 advisor's to the area to help train the Iraqi Military to deal more proactively with ISIS. Think back to a little place called Viet Nam. We said we would only send "Advisor's" to that country to help train them to deal with the incursion from the North. But instead, that little bit of advising ended up with over 58,000 American Soldiers dying in a conflict that was never even called a "war."

Yes, Viet Nam started out with some air strikes and a military group of "advisor's" to help the South Vietnamese deal with their conflict. But it didn't stop there.

So, I must ask, "Is history repeating itself?" We hear all the time from those who teach our children that history has a way of repeating itself. I am concerned that this will escalate to a point where history repeats itself and we end up sending more and more advisor's to the region and they end up involved in ground combat.

Even the "advisor's" will tell you that when the shooting starts, if you are in the way, you grab your gun and return fire, it's a self-preservation thing as well as what you have been trained to do. I do not fault our "advisor's" for fighting, they must do what must be done. I just wonder if we are moving towards another foreign incursion that will draw us in and cause us to loose many good young people in combat.

With that said, I must also say, I think it is right for us to get involved. I think it is proper for us to see the evil and want to respond. I believe that we have an obligation to help when there is a bully in the neighborhood that is starting to kill innocent people.

Let's just not be blind to what the eventually outcome will mean.

Please pray for our President and our government officials who have to make these difficult decisions. Please also pray for our Military who will be put in harms way to help stop the evil that is calling itself ISIS.