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As I was watching the Sunday news shows (Mar.2) I had this insight about the famous red phone and who should answer it. I started thinking back on all the Nation's disasters that could have been avoided if no one had answered. I could start with Iraq, that's obvious, but Afghanistan's a disaster, throw in Kosovo and Serbia, how about Somalia, Waco, Ruby Ridge, Falkland Islands, Central America, Columbia, Viet Nam, Cuba-Bay Of Pigs, Korea, The list could just go on and I have no doubt I have missed obvious failures just in the last 50 years. Oh yea, how about last year when Israel called and got those 500 pound bombs from us to kill all those Lebanese old people and children? Wasn't that a five star moment for American war Profiteers? You have to wonder if the red phone was dialed and answered during hurricane Katrina? Since that turned out to be such a disaster I think that you could make the case that the phone was answered during that mess. I mean it seems that total incompetence always follows that dang phone ringing and being answered. You have to wonder if the phone rang while all these bad mortgages were being written, underwritten, bundled and then traded for guaranteed Govt. bonds? Don't you think someone somewhere called to report this raid on the US Treasury? Probably, because look at the disaster this has become.
So here's my thought, pure, innocent and simple in it's consideration, whoever is elected this November, once in the famous hub of Freedom, the one and only Oval office, if that phone rings, don't answer it. Just let the phone go to voice mail and then listen to the voice mail and as counter intuitive as it may seem at the moment, think awhile and consider before you go off and invade another country. You may even want to speak and then listen to the country first before you "act" for a change. Really, could the results have been much worse if no one had answered that phone?
