Tuesday, February 28, 2006

The POTUS That Cried Wolf?

When I was young, we were often told the story of "the boy that cried wolf". I'm not sure but I think it is was one of Aesop's fables. Anyway, I am certain that most of you my age or older know the story. For other's, basically the little boy was a shepard who figured out that if he cried wolf really loud, the townspeople would rush to his assistance. He did that several times when there really was no wolf just for the excitment. Then when a wolf did come along and the little boy cried wolf the townspeople thought he was still pranking and did not come to help. The wolf ate up all the sheep.

Now what we have with the POTUS and the UAE controlling some US ports is similiar, but we haven't reached the moral of the story yet. Sure POTUS has been "crying wolf" about arab terrorist ever since 9/11/2001. Unfortunately for him, the American people are still rushing to kill every wolf. In the case of the UAE, POTUS tells us that this is a friendly wolf, and he didn't cry wolf, some alarmist did, but all this "wolf crying" has kinda conditioned us to be a national of people that jump up with pitch forks in hand at any wolf, no matter who is doing the crying.

I'm sure that eventually we as a nation will figure out the moral of the story, if you cry wolf when there is no wolf, don't expect much help when there actually is a wolf but in the mean time it is gonna be difficult for any wolves to operate ports in the USofA.

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