Weather It Is (Coming Around Again, Of Course)

Good Evening:

Our weather refuses to settle down.  It's cool, it's warm, and then cool again.  It's the cycle of weather!  In fact, there could even be a few showers early next week.

How did we get here?  Let's be honest.  We left Gaza -- big mistake -- unless you like missiles raining on us like summer showers.  Then, in 2008 (Cast Lead), we ran to war, only to ran away from its finish (so Hamas had time to recharge its missile silos and improve its training -- just like an electrical storm recharges after a strike).  This was followed in 2011 by another war, where we again stood down -- in the hope that bad weather (i.e., Hamas) would not strike again.

Now, we are here again, and we just endured a storm of rockets.  Yet, we in the centre have it relatively easy.  The real bad "weather" is in the south, where periodic heavy missile barrages send our fellow citizens to their shelters, without sleep, and with frayed nerves.

I've written that our government has treated this problem like it's unsolvable -- like the inhabitants of "Tornado-Alley," who can only burrow deeper into the ground or under their mattresses.

Enough!  We need to fight like a Tornado or even a tropical storm -- and like either we must not stop until Hamas and their friends are completely destroyed.  And when the world asks for "restraint," we must close our ears -- because only complete victory can end our nightmare.

Barry Lynn