America, get in the game

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Every scholastic and professional sport team actually has two teams within it. There is the defensive team and the offensive team. It’s the defense that protects the hoop, the goal line and home base, but (there’s that word) it’s the offense whose goal is to go through those goals. It’s the offense that puts points on the board and eventually wins the game, not the defense.

America has been involved, unfortunately, in several wars and none of those conflicts has America put the winning team points on the board unless it has put its offense into the game. It won in 1779, 1814, 1865, 1917 and 1945 and not since.

Eisenhower won World War Two after he fought on the French shore and sent his troops on to Berlin. But (there’s that word again) in 1953, America went no further that mid-field and gave up Korea at the 38th parallel.

If you go to Seoul, South Korea today, any Korean citizen will tell you that South Korea is still at war with North Korea. They just aren’t trying to get past mid-field. They’ll be happy with what they have in the south which copies American freedom and American liberty. Their ruling government copies American democracy.

Go to Vietnam today, but (there it is again) you’ll have to pass the Communist bureaucracy first. What used to be the capital of the nation is now named after the person that put the offense on the field and America stopped defending the Democratic Republic of South Vietnam. America surrendered to the offense, and the day after that surrender the offensive team changed the name of the capital of what was a nation and named it after the head coach of the offensive team.

Today in the Middle East, America won’t even send its team. The offense will overrun the defense and murder any that opposed them.

Once upon a time, Europe, Asia, North Africa, anywhere in the world, it was America that could be depended on for enforcing freedom and offending any that would chose to deter those freedoms, defending only after the American offense won the game.

Today the Bureaucrat-in-Chief tells them, “OK, ISIS, you don’t have to fight any more. America won’t oppose you. It’s your field, it’s your game.”

John Romph
Fayetteville, Ga.