While I was writing in the Daily Post this past Friday – about ‘poking fun, some’ – I left something out, that could stand a little poking.
Did you hear about this? That when he was the nation’s president, Donald Trump once asked his Defense Secretary, Mark Esper, “about launching missiles into Mexico?” To “destroy the drug labs’ and kill cartels.”
That’s been in the news, for a couple of days now.
And no one would know?… Mr. Trump, according to Mr. Esper, was thinking: it could be done, quietly.
Well… a blimp, like the one pictured, just below, or satellites, or some of those big-dish antennas like we have here in America — and other countries have as well — just might have spotted missiles heading from our country, out over the southern border, on their way into Mexico.
This particular Army blimp, that can float off into the wild blue yonder, is just one of the high-tech gizmos that can detect missile launches. Those eyes in the sky, all around, can see what’s going on, 24/7.
Good heavens! No one would have known?
You see what I mean about poking fun? It’s as easy as pie. Or, shall we say, ‘pie in the sky?’
“When I find myself in times of trouble…” — those words Paul McCartney sang in ‘Let It Be’ — I find myself taking things seriously, by not taking them seriously.
Harvey Radin is former senior vice president in charge of corporate communications and media relations, Bank of America Western Region. He makes his home in Redwood City, CA.