URBANNA — Having our president touring Ireland while the U.S., Taiwanese and Chinese Navy were all in the Formosa Straits seemingly on the brink of war reminded me of an old saw from the history of Rome. Nero, the sanity challenged Roman Emperor, was said to have fiddled while his city and empire was falling to ruin.
Whether Nero was actually fiddling or not is not the point. What the adage means is he was not taking care of business, doing his job, leading his country and defending his empire. He was asleep at the switch.
Our president might have been enjoying his week in Ireland touring castles with his son, Hunter, and others but I worried the entire time. I’m an ex-Navy wife and I couldn’t get the image of a U.S. aircraft carrier with several thousand brave men and women on board in service of defending our nation within easy distance of a Chinese missile that could have knocked the ship right out of the ocean instantaneously killing all of the thousands on board.
