The boy is not really a boy it is the Republican Party, the president and the media. The cry is not because they are bored, with nothing to do while they are watching over the sheep. It is an intentional cry, and by coincident it happens every two years!

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We all know the story of the boy who cried wolf. The thing you do not know, it is not an American story and you have to believe me. I heard it many years ago in a different bed at a different home with a different language. I am sorry to break your heart!

We also think we know the moral of the story. At least I thought I know it. The moral of the story is not to lie, right?

WRONG, it took me forty years to make this important discovery and now it is time to share it with you, but do not tell anybody!

The truth about the moral of the story is very simple. Simple enough that we could not see it at first glance, I do not think that anybody wanted us to see it either.

The wolf lives and probably will get you, that is the moral of the story!

You see, after all the lies the crying and portending that the wolf is coming, the wolf caught up with the little boy, and believe me it was not beautiful sight!

Why am I saying all of that, will I tell you that little red riding-hood was an old woman?

I do not think so, I only care about crying wolf and the fact that the wolf is indeed out there and some day he will catch up with us unless we do something, and what are we doing?

The boy is not really a boy it is the Republican Party, the president and the media. The cry is not because they are bored, with nothing to do while they are watching over the sheep. It is an intentional cry, and by coincident it happens every two years!

Wait it is even more interesting, because they are afraid we might not believe them or get bored with their cries they have different names for these important crying sessions, they call one mid-term election, you know what they call the other one!

The cry is not really screaming, but all the tactics we have to live with every single day until the end of the election. You want an example I have many to tell.

Now, we have to hear what Osama said every single morning. Osama said he will attack and of course, we need to believe him. Few months ago, our president told us it does not matter if we capture Osama or not because we destroyed, Al-Qaeda and he is a man on the run. It was different time and may be our president was referring to a different Osama all together!

September every other year is a good time to debate if we should stay in Iraq or leave! We need to understand that Sadam has no links to Al-Qaeda, but the war in Iraq is part of the war on terror and unless we fight evil out there, they will fight us here. Why this is difficult to understand, our president and many congressional leaders often wonder.

Assuming we are bunch of sheep and our Shepard see the danger in Iraq and we believe him because we are sheep. So we have to win in Iraq, but if all the signs are saying, we are losing our people, our resources our credibility with no return on investment. Should the question continue to be stay or leave?

Alternatively I would think, the question becomes who can change a strategy of three years that brought destruction to the Middle East and US, but little that I know, our leaders are debating instead if leaving is redeployment or cut and run. Moreover, nobody seems to answer this important question!

If you need more examples, here you go.

You know how average Joe cares about International law. Another important issue we need to discuss four weeks before election is Article three of the Geneva Convention.

That law came out at the end of the Second World War but people were not smart enough to ask the tough questions, they did not know if it is vague or not and now is the time to know. We went through many wars after that and we were not confused, but now end of September on an election year we need to know the answer!

The unpatriotic supreme court of our country came up with this strange decision, we need to adhere to the international law. Are they crazy, International what?
Therefore, our president answer is to create new courts with no evidence required. What is unusual about that decision?

Our government knows best, these bad people have very important intelligence even after five years in our jails. It is a known fact that water boarding, hanging from ceilings, wiring genitals improves memory. Therefore, the intelligence they have after five years must be fresh and we need to take the president word for it.

In addition, our stupid enemy cannot adapt, so probably what they knew back then is still the plan!

You see, we better get busy and be afraid; the terror is REAL exactly like the wolf!

After all these examples, crying wolf in itself is not strategy, what will republicans gain through this crying?

True, the strategy is in the second part of the act, when we all believe that the wolf is out there then we know that only Republicans can fight the big bad wolf!

Can we buy the same old argument for the third time?

Did we learn back when we used to listen to bedtime stories while our parents are tucking us under the cover that strong depends on the results?

It is not muscle, but brains. If we learned any of that then let us look at the results.

The statistics tells us that month over month we are losing more of our solders, hundreds of Iraqis are killed on daily basis, sectarian violence reached a point of no return regardless if technically we can call it civil war or not.

We cannot leave Iraq at the current juncture, not because of the good of our heart, but because it will be another Afghanistan in the middle of the source of the world's energy.

We cannot stay either because every day we spend there we are creating more extremists that believe their only opportunity to fight America is in Iraq. We recruit our own killers every day of the week and then complain why our enemies in Syria and Iran cannot control their borders. Can we control ours?

According to many studies, Iran is the biggest winner so far in this war, whereby through Shiites majority they cultivated a strong control to the point that Iran probably is the single player holding all the cards in Iraq. This is the same Iran we consider major threat to our security, we the USA are the reason behind their newly found fortune!

Then you look around the jungle, I mean the world where the big bad wolf is hiding and you think of Afghanistan. In Afghanistan according to all sources including our own the Taliban is back, it does not take a genius to imagine that they are not back alone but with their backbone Al-Qaeda. They are not hiding anymore, actually, they are attacking the international force on regular basis to the point that the head of the NATO is begging for additional troops.

At the mean time, certain areas in south and east Afghanistan fell completely under the control of the Taliban alliance. In addition, for the first time in history Afghanistan is producing more opium than the needs of all junkies in the world. I am not kidding; you can find this on the net produced by reliable sources.

Now let us look at even a bigger picture, our president four years ago identified three countries as the access of evil. Iran we made it definitely stronger through our actions in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Syria is in a good shape than ever, and the recent war in Lebanon is an undeniable testament.

Korea completed at least several nuclear tests since the leader of the free world made his stand, and because it is not in the political interest of anybody, we do not mention Korea anymore!

At the end, I would like to say to all of you voters out there that the danger is REAL.

The results of our fight are miserable at best, and the Shepard will keep crying while the wolf is getting stronger, unless of course we find ourselves another Shepard!

Authors Bio:
I am an Egyptian American born in Alexandria. I immigrated to the US in the late eighties, during this time lived in many places in US and Europe. I work as an IT manager and love it. I love to travel, it makes me feel young, and it awakes in me sense of adventure and curiosity. I love knowing people from different cultures; it never fails to amaze me how we all live in our little worlds that never meet. History is my second amazement, it always differ depending on who is winning, that leads me to my third hobby, politics is it history or human nature that is the culprit?