Kim Jong-un vows war if long-range rocket shot down - The Globe and Mail

Let's see... how did that go again? "States like these and their terrorist allies constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world." (G.W. Bush: State of the Union Address, 2002) He was talking about Iraq, Iran and North Korea. We may need to remind our American neighbors that just because their national game gives every player 'three strikes' before they must 'step away from the plate' doesn't mean that they can assume that we Canadians will agree to give them another chance to come up to bat. We are a nation of hockey fans. We understand that a game can end 0-1, irrespective of whose considered the 'home team'. Most of us believe that the game has been played, and while we stand 1-0 in military terms, it was a Pyrrhic victory when we assess the real losses our team suffered in terms of 'career ending injuries and deaths.' It was like this weekend when poor, battered Vancouver won but got mugged when they played in Boston. They suffered lots of bruised bones and injuries that will effect their performance into the future even if they won the two points for the 'victory'.


Diplomacy might be analogous to baseball. That would explain how the US came to become the most powerful empire on the planet through the 20th century. But war is another game entirely. Just ask anyone player who succeeded in hoisting the Stanley Cup over their head. The lessons learned there are far more applicable to war than baseball could ever teach when it comes to making the decision to 'play ball' with the Americans in any future military adventures.


Fr. Tim


Kim Jong-un vows war if long-range rocket shot down - The Globe and Mail