Rewards For Excellence
link Taliban Dream Team: Who are the 5 prisoners traded for Bergdahls freedom? | Fox News.
The release of 5 Taliban guys in exchange for Sgt. Bergdahl is an event that has to anger or annoy at least one person. That would be the number 6 terrorist on the release list. The link describes the various nefarious exploits of the top 5 Taliban guys and we must suppose that the number 6 guy didn’t quite cause as much mayhem and destruction as the top 5 did. As we’ve determined before, that consternation must come with mixed feelings. On the one hand, all the guys below 5 get to still live in relative comfort without the corporate pressure of plotting the next successful hit. On the other hand, they miss out on the adulation of their peeps back at home.
History is replete with the exploits of those that went above and beyond and were able to distinguish themselves from the vast majority of people who toil anonymously in their chosen fields. Even in the mass murder and mayhem business, it seems that excellence in the field is rewarded. You would think by now that some of the foot-soldiers in the Jihad movement would be a little less eager to don the ball bearing vest when they see that their superiors get fed and coddled by the enemy and then feted by their own people upon their release. All that the plebes get are promises of untouched women in the great beyond.
What’s the lesson here? It’s the universal one: whatever you do, strive to be the best at it if you want to be treated well by society. We can foresee the Taliban guys giving inspirational speeches at high school graduations. The incumbent president seems to be taking that philosophy as his operating beacon as well. Not content to be just a number in the string of Presidents through history, he appears intent on cementing his position as the worst thereby ensuring his immortality. At this point, Jimmy Carter is rightfully miffed and Woodrow Wilson is convulsing in his grave.
The only certainty about attaining recognition for being the best at what you do is that someone will always come along trying to top that position. In the case of the 5 Taliban guys just recently released, you can bet that some in the ranks will want to surpass their positions like golfers trying to oust Tiger Woods as number 1. We can expect more killings, more destruction and larger scale mayhem. In the case of someone one day trying to usurp Obama’s role in history, well that’s a race to the bottom nobody should want to celebrate.