I played basketball my second year at a small junior college .<\/p>\n
Not much to say about how I did, but I do remember the coach’s often repeated line, “Don’t telegraph your passes.”<\/p>\n
You can guess where I’m going with this—applied to war, today.<\/p>\n
Seems when the good guys broadcast their intentions, they suffer and lose.<\/p>\n
Seems when the bad guys make their intentions clear, nobody believes them, and nobody responds accordingly.<\/p>\n
War is complicated, and war is hell, and waiting to wage a winnable war is worse.<\/p>\n
Something has got to be simple in all the mess.<\/p>\n
The consequences of losing this one today are unthinkable, even though people see those consequences every day on their screen.<\/p>\n
BHOB* keeps telling everyone when we will end wars, while the enemy keeps telling everyone they’re going to intensify the war, until they reach their goal—us.<\/p>\n
So the bad guys telegraph their passes, and the good guys don’t get it.<\/p>\n
How come?<\/p>\n
The “good guys”\u00a0ARE<\/span> the bad guys—running the show from Washington, along with those running the show from the Middle East.<\/p>\n A lot of Americans realize how bad, how evil, the leadership is in Washington.<\/p>\n So why can’t we defeat them?<\/p>\n For too long the REAL “good guys” in America have telegraphed our passes and made it clear that we will avoid violence at all cost.<\/p>\n Because we avoid violence, the cost of the coming violence will be enormous.<\/p>\n We wait for the next election, and we hope, and we lose.<\/p>\n This last one turned out to be snatching political defeat from the jaws of election victory, again.<\/p>\n Everybody’s wrapped up in what the “leaders” should be doing, and what should happen in 2016.<\/p>\n Again, we’re making it clear that we’re counting on another election, while the enemy (inside and out) laughs and plans their final assault, long before then.<\/p>\n They couldn’t be more obvious—plenty of dates and intentions, in 2015, and we wait?<\/p>\n And we just passed the midpoint of 2015.<\/p>\n God help us now—We need a miracle.<\/p>\n And give us all supernatural gun control—with our two hands held by Yours.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n *BHOB\u2014Barack Hussein OBama\u2014Say BHHHOB aloud and it sounds like the warning for Christians in the 2008 election: \u201cBeware of sheep\u2019s clothing.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I played basketball my second year at a small junior college . Not much to say about how I did, but I do remember the coach’s often repeated line, “Don’t telegraph your passes.” You can guess where I’m going with this—applied to war, today. Seems when the good guys broadcast their intentions, they suffer and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,7,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2850"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2930,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions\/2930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}