Let's acknowledge one thing up front and please don't bull crap around the fact; we all enjoy the role of 'armchair quarterback!! You bet your sweet ass! I spent 37-years as a varsity basketball coach. I had coaching stops at Mason City, Washington, Edwardsville, Jacksonville and Decatur; all Illinois communities and all damn good basketball communities. These coaching jobs came with high expectations...to WIN! Most of the local fans had strong opinions on 'how' to win but none of them bothered to become a coach.
I had a radio sports program in Jacksonville for nineteen years. It was a 30-minute Saturday morning show. The station manager wanted me to take telephone calls and questions. I told him that I was born at night in East St. Louis but IT WAS NOT LAST NIGHT! Who the hell in their right mind wishes to listen to wannabes (after the game) second guess your coaching moves mandated during the heat of the contest...you gotta be shitting me!
This brings me to this Syrian use of chemical weapons on its own countrymen during their civil war. I could give a rats ass if those people want to fight and kill over some domestic revolution; but whoa; the nerve-gassing of innocent children can never be ignored by civilized folks. Good people don't turn their heads on that behavior. But American President Obama is walking on eggshell because the well was poisoned by his predecessor with previous manipulated facts and blatant lies. Obama needs to take a page out of Harry S. Truman's play book and crank up the Enola Gay. Stop worrying about the so-called 50% of Americans who wish NOT to respond; ignore such polls. We have 317 million Americans. 107 million of those Americans (one-third) either cannot read or read below the fifth grade level. Many of these 'giant-thinkers' are polled when they leave the high school athletic contests.
Our government needs to address this chemical war-weapons 'over-there' before it is 'over-here.'
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