In sports the coach knows the capabilities and limits of each one of his team members. Therefore he is a strategist when it comes to tactical placement of those members so the best performance of the team as a whole is achieved.
A good coach also uses timing to maximum advantage to insure success in the game at hand. Lets hope our leader is a good coach as he moves his players around on the field of play to maximize team victory. A good coach can make all the difference as the fans already know.
When we see coach at work we often wonder what he is up to. And will it improve upon our position in the playoffs etc...
Team Obama:
"According to a report at The Daily Beast, the Obama administration has decided to give the drone program to the Pentagon,
taking it away from the CIA. This could lead to increased transparency
for the program and stricter requirements for drone strikes. From the
article: 'Officials anticipate a phased-in transition in which the CIA’s
drone operations would be gradually shifted over to the military, a
process that could take as little as a year. Others say it might take
longer but would occur during President Obama’s second term. “You can’t
just flip a switch, but it’s on a reasonably fast track,” says one U.S.
official. During that time, CIA and DOD operators would begin to work
more closely together to ensure a smooth hand-off. The CIA would remain
involved in lethal targeting, at least on the intelligence side, but
would not actually control the unmanned aerial vehicles. Officials told
The Daily Beast that a potential downside of the agency’s relinquishing
control of the program was the loss of a decade of expertise that the
CIA has developed since it has been prosecuting its war in Pakistan and
beyond. At least for a period of transition, CIA operators would likely
work alongside their military counterparts to target suspected
terrorists.'"
"On the tenth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Eric Boehlert
writes that if Twitter had been around during the winter of 2002-2003,
it could have provided a forum for critics to badger Beltway media
insiders who abdicated their role as journalists and fell in line behind
the Bush White House's march to war. 'Twitter could have helped
puncture the Beltway media bubble by providing news consumers with direct access to confront journalists during the run-up to the war,'
writes Boehlert. 'And the pass-around nature of Twitter could have
rescued forgotten or buried news stories and commentaries that ran
against the let's-go-to-war narrative that engulfed so much of the
mainstream press.' For example, imagine how Twitter could have been used
in real time on February 5, 2003, when Secretary of State Colin Powell made his infamous attack-Iraq presentation to the United Nations. At the time, Beltway pundits positively swooned over Powell's air-tight case for war.
'But Twitter could have swarmed journalists with instant analysis about
the obvious shortcoming. That kind of accurate, instant analysis of Powell's presentation was posted on blogs
but ignored by a mainstream media enthralled by the White House's march
to war.' Ten years ago, Twitter could have also performed the task of
making sure news stories that raised doubts about the war didn't fall
through the cracks, as invariably happened back then. With swarms of
users touting the reports, it would have been much more difficult for
reporters and pundits to dismiss important events and findings.
'Ignoring Twitter, and specifically ignoring what people are saying
about your work on Twitter, isn't really an option the way turning a
blind eye to anti-war bloggers may have been ten years ago,' concludes
Boehlert. 'In other words, Twitter could have been the megaphone — the media equalizer — that war critics lacked ten years ago."
Me thinks the wheels of justice grind slowly, but O how they grind...Those who planned and set in motion 911 and the wars will be pulverized one day by the hand of Almighty God.
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