Let's Play the "What if" Game

Just wondering...

If you were a corporate CEO, would you let your biggest competitors know your annual plans? I mean, wouldn't that be fair?

If you were competing in a baking contest, would you give your rivals your great-grandmother's secret recipe? After all, aren't you nice?

If you were with the health department, would you publish your surprise inspection dates so that all the cafes on your list  had a fair chance to get ready?

If you invented a new drink at Starbucks that was sure to double national sales, you'd give Caribou a heads up on the big new campaign so they could get ready, right?

If you were an NFL coach for the number two team, you'd let the coach for the number one team have access to your play books and training videos, right? After all we want to demonstrate equal footing, don't we?

Oh. Wait. You're saying "NO" to all of the above, right? I know I am.

Then help me with this one, please.

Tell me why it is supposed to be a prudent foreign affair tactic for the US to announce that another country is about to receive military punishment. And ... practically describe the action they are to expect? (Don't even get me started on the part where well-informed opposing viewpoints are being ignored.)

I don't understand how empty threats that aren't followed up by the President are supposed to work when it certainly doesn't work when parents try it.

In both cases, no one respects the leader.

I don't know about you, but I think people in position of leadership and power should be respected. Yes, we must respect their position, but I'd like to respect the things they do as well.

#praying

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