Monday morning and it’s very quiet. I’m sure we can get used to it. We had a large number of grandchildren here on Saturday evening and it was great to have them all in one place! Good memories. And it was startling to see how they had grown as well. Karlee and Kyle, 7 and 5 respectively, had grown at least a foot…and we last saw them only a few weeks ago. Maybe it was the lighting?
I can’t help but be reminded of grandchildren this morning as I can see, quite clearly now, that someone (Who could it have been?) has drawn lines and squiggles all across the face of my monitor. They show up very well against the white background of this Word document. It looks like pencil marks and with any luck it will come off.
I was just reading the news this morning and came across this headline and quote; “Rice Admits U.S. Underestimated Hamas Strength” and "I've asked why nobody saw it coming. It does say something about us not having a good enough pulse." Condoleezza Rice, On Hamas's Victory In Palestinian Elections.
And so I wonder…why is it that in one of the most critical areas of the world, we can’t even tell what time of day it is? Why is our “intelligence” an oxymoron? And do we make all, or just some of our foreign policy decisions based on flawed information? Shouldn’t someone lose their job for this kind of failure? Or…since Ms. Rice was guilty of this herself, back in the Reagan days, when she was supposed to be watching the Russians, will the offenders be promoted instead?
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