Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Was Yogi Berra Ever A Green Beret

All time great NY Yankee catcher Yogi Berra was one of my favorite players when I was tadpole. Later he became a well known team manager. Most people today are more familiar with his Yogisms, than they are with his background as a player/manager.
I like the Yogisms myself- "This restaurant was a good place to eat, till all the people started showing up" and when he told some rookies in spring training- "You three pair up".

A story came out of Viet Nam during the war, that our Green Berets weren't blowing up captured Viet Cong weapons caches. Instead these special forces soldiers were taking the AK-47 ammunition emptying out the powder of several cartridges, and refilling them with C-4 explosives. The idea was to get an unsuspecting Viet Cong guerilla to not only identify himself as one of the lurking enemy hiding amongst the indigenous population, but to blow himself up using the spiked ammuntion the next time he tried to ambush US or South Vietnamese troops.

Another benefit derived was the psychological affect and negative morale boost once the word got round among the VC that the Green Berets were spiking their ammo.

Today an article I read was alerting the citizenry about the spread of gang activity to the suburbs. The police are asking everyone to have the local police number recorded in their cell phones. If we see any new tagging or tagging in progress, we should call the police immediately. The idea is to disrupt the turf squirting and get the undesirables out of the area. Like that's worked in L.A.

So how does Yogi fit into this? After the morning news I remarked we have so many problems going on in America today, where do we start? Then it struck me, we need to start pairing up these problems.

We could pair up the gang problem with the unwanted jihadists amongst us. Wouldn't that be a better way of going about the business of restoring order? Tag a few mosques with the gang signs of the groups you want out. wait a while for results. Then put the word out it was the Obama communists that got the ball rolling in the first place with these two groups.

We need to start having our problems pair up three at a time against each other until they are gone, just like Yogi said.

That's what Soros and crew have been doing to us all along.

Steve

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