Making Sense of It All

Now for some insights and advice to help us through the fog that surrounds us.  Fog? Sure, the fog of war. We all know what than means, right? It starts on battlefields, where it's not crystal clear what the heck is going on.  Think of the image of 19th century armies lined up and engaging. The cannons fire as the troops approach each other in lines. Smoke from canon fire and the rifles used at the time filled the air. Many such battles were engaged over wide swatches of land. There were engagements left, right, center. The strategy each general had quickly went out the window and there was need to respond to the enemies activities. All amounted to fog that had to be dealt with in some way. The fog extends to reporting on war. Do we really know whether what we read and hear is accurate, much less true? Think of the war with Iran and lots of statements from the current administration, from the Israeli government, the Iranian government. What's true? What has been exaggerated or...