What Price HONOR? - Herbert W Armstrong - January 1969

Herbert W Armstrong

Of course we all rejoice that the crewmen of the U.S.S. Pueblo are back home safe - even if not as sound as they might have been had they not been subjected to almost unbelievable beatings and inhuman torture. But many are overlooking the other side of the coin. I'm not a military man. I personally DO place the value of human life far ahead of the value of materiel, ships, and military equipment. I did not vote to make the United States a military power. BUT IT IS A MILITARY POWER - in a world of military powers. And as such it must conduct itself as military powers are conducted – OR LOSE FACE, LOSE HONOR - and, in the end, lose all FREEDOM! And this poses some serious questions: To what depths of disgrace is the most powerful nation in the world willing to stoop? The United States stood disgraced before the world when it allowed the US.S. Pueblo to be captured, or to be in such position that it could be taken. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library