Pugna Silvae Teutoburgensis

Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
Otto Albert Koch

Amici,

The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in AD 9 is of particular significance today. The relevant Wikipedia entry states that this battle, "...describe as clades Variana (the Varian disaster) by Roman historians, took place...when an alliance of Germanic tribes ambushed and decisively destroyed three Roman legions and their auxiliaries, led by Publius Quinctilius Varus. The anti-Roman alliance was led by Arminius, who had acquired Roman citizenship and received a Roman military education, thus enabling him to personally deceive the Roman commander and foresee the Roman army's tactical responses. Despite several successful campaigns and raids by the Roman army in the years after the battle, they never again attempted to conquer Germanic territory east of the Rhine River. The Germanic victory against the Roman legions in the Teutoburg forest had far-reaching effects on the subsequent history of both the ancient Germanic peoples and on the Roman Empire. Modern historians have regarded Arminius' victory as 'Rome's greatest defeat' and one of the most decisive battles in history."

"...Upon hearing of the defeat, the Emperor Augustus, according to the Roman historian Suetonius in De Vita Caesarum ('On the Life of the Caesars'), was so shaken that he stood butting his head against the walls of his palace, repeatedly shouting: 'Quintili Vare, legiones redde!' ('Quintilius Varus, return the legions!')"

The reason why this battle is of significance today is because President Barack Hussein Obama, who is not a quarter of the man that Augustus Caesar was, is making the same mistakes and sending our military into areas where eventually the enemy will prove overwhelming. Because he has demonstrated weakness throughout his years in office, the Muslims, the Russians and the Chinese are each embolden. The President has reacted (not responded) by sending destroyers into the Black Sea, (Russia's back yard swimming pool), by ordering Special Forces into Syria (where Russian air force jets are supporting the currently installed Syrian regime), and by ordering air craft carriers into the South China Sea where Chinese ballistic missile ranges exceed that of the jets aboard the carrier. Sooner or later, hubris will bring its own punishment as it had to Augustus Caesar. This is of particular note given that Russian Orthodox clergy pray for God's protection over Russian troops in Syria as Barack Hussein Obama defies God though the infanticide of the unborn and the sanctification of the filth of sterile sexual perversion. Sooner or later the United States will lose a nuclear powered aircraft carrier or submarine, or some other vital and irreplaceable asset. Then will the words of Hosea 8:7 come to pass: "For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind..." God is a gentleman; He will not stay where He is unwanted. Barack Hussein Obama by his idolatry and immorality has asked God to leave, and so God shall. As ironic as it is, former KGB agent Vladimir Putin asks God to come and protect his troops, and so God shall.