Lt. Colonel John Memory: Bush is a Lousy Poker Player

Isn’t it interesting how poker analogies are appropriate in so many areas of life. One of the books I have enjoyed recently is “Tournament Poker and the Art of War”, which applies the brilliant, ancient military strategies of Sun-Tzu to the game of poker: Ancient war strategies and Poker

Here at Pokerhomey.com, I also recently linked to an article in which a retired fund manager from Bermuda listed some reasons why free-market libertarian minded thinkers should embrace the game of poker: Free market economy and Poker

Well, now we have Lt. Colonel John Memory laying into President George W. Bush for playing a miserable game of “poker” in Iraq and Afghanistan. You may judge for yourself how well Bush has played the “game”, but the Light Colonel does a good job of employing the poker analogy to the ongoing struggle. Life and death…and Poker

Postscript – May 18, 2006

I found out last night that another young man from our community here was just killed in Iraq. I was one of his little league coaches years ago. As a youngster on our team, he was a delightful, sweet kid. He went on to be a fine kicker on the West Monroe HS football team. He was the third young man from West Monroe High School to die in Iraq. His name was Lee Deal.