{"id":2288,"date":"2013-08-07T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T17:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=2288"},"modified":"2013-08-07T10:00:05","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T17:00:05","slug":"fear-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=2288","title":{"rendered":"FEAR ITSELF"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/em>Several years ago I was invited to attend a \u201cGolden Gloves\u201d competition as a spectator.\u00a0 I was reluctant to go, because I am not a big fan of boxing and I expected mediocre performers.\u00a0 I was pleasantly surprised to learn that it was a lot of fun.\u00a0 What made it interesting is that fighters would participate in several bouts trying to get into the finals.\u00a0 We became familiar with some of the guys and watched their careers develop, or not develop, over the course of the day.\u00a0 One guy, we nicknamed \u201cSlick\u201d was dressed to the hilt.\u00a0 He had a colorful shirt that matched his shorts and even had matching tassels on his shoes.\u00a0 He danced around the ring, obviously considering himself to be the next Mohammed Ali. He looked unbeatable.\u00a0 \u00a0In same same division was a big Polish kid with zero boxing skills.\u00a0 He could barely move and he had no clue how to defend himself.\u00a0 he would just wade into the punches, with his head turned sideways to deflect the blows.\u00a0 Then, when he got close to the other guy he would pummel his opponent with wild roundhouse punches.\u00a0 \u00a0Even a near miss was terrifying.\u00a0 If he accidentallly hit someone, they went down and stayed down.\u00a0 We called him \u201cStash.\u201d\u00a0 Stash and Slick met in the semi-finals.\u00a0 At first Slick came out with an attitude.\u00a0 He was dancing, jawing and jabbing.\u00a0 Then Stash hit him.\u00a0 All of a suddent Slick realized that he could get hurt.\u00a0 The attitude disappeared and Slick became very anxious to just survive the bout.\u00a0 He was running backward around the ring, as fast as he could go, while Stash stalked him like a clumsy but crazed serial killer.\u00a0 It was one of the funniest things I have ever seen.\u00a0 Unfortunately it reminds me of the Obama administration response to the latest incident in the war on terror.<\/p>\n

The Associate Press is reporting that the decision to issue the terror warning and shut down our embassies was based on an intercept of a message from ak-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahri.\u00a0 The following report is from the telegraph UK:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/al-qaeda\/10224477\/US-embassy-closures-sparked-by-Ayman-al-Zawahiri-message.html#disqus_thread<\/a><\/p>\n

If this is accurate, releasing this information will do grave harm to national security.\u00a0 Al-Qaida was able to bring this country to its knees without firing a shot.\u00a0 Al-Qaida obviously learned an important lesson from Benghazi.\u00a0 They learned that this President is weak and that the United States has become an easy target.\u00a0 The following article from McClatchy explains how security experts are viewing this action:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2013\/08\/06\/198681\/broad-us-terror-alert-mystifies.html#.UgIpedXD8dV<\/a><\/p>\n

This sure looks like another TSA solution.\u00a0 Rather than going after the guys who really matter, the TSA is groping young girls and grandmothers while ignoring the Muslim looking male muttering allahu akbar.\u00a0 Now, Obama shut down all our embassies and went on vacation.\u00a0 By taking this action he probably thinks he avoids blame if there is another attack.\u00a0 In the meantime we are providing our enemies with a copy of our play book that they will almost certainly use to attack us in the future.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t help reflecting on a famouse line from Franklin Delano Roosevelts first inaugaral address.\u00a0 He said that the \u201cOnly Thing we Have to Fear is Fear itself.\u201d<\/i><\/b>\u00a0 Well welcome to \u201cFear Itself.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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