All of us should consider the blessings that our current president bestows upon us. For example, the blessing of “discipline.”

Yesterday, our current president issued an ultimatum essentially declaring that if Iran didn’t open the Strait of Hormuz by today around 4 pm, he would bomb all of their energy facilities out of existence. One can assume that he expected Iran to obey. However, there is no history to support this expectation. Unsurprisingly, Iran did not. Instead their government offered to meet his destruction with their own, announcing they would do the same to neighboring countries’ energy facilities.

This morning our current president backed off, announcing he would delay the utter destruction until a later date.

Our current president has established a strong track record of this kind of behavior, which has earned him the nickname TACO (as in always chickens out).

Should being perceived as always chickening be the issue? Actually, the larger concern should be centered on discipline or lack thereof. This is not to say our current president should have bombed anyone any further. Previous presidents did not issue threats off the cuff, without discussing plans, consequences, national and international impact, and the fallout of failure with competent experts and advisors before saying a word. That was discipline.

No other modern president has ever issued such threats without first gathering a team to create a clear and cohesive plan to carry through because consistent discipline is important, words matter, and both impact our standing in the world.

It further hurts our global standing when our current president does not seem to understand the vocabulary of war. Battles are not excursions. Excursions are a day trips we take during a nice vacation. He means incursions but won’t listen. This is just one more example of our present disciplinary limitations showing.

This is also a blessing because it can spur us to consider what is happening and how it will impact our country and the world.

As another example, insulting NATO allies repeatedly and then getting angry when they decline to assist our surprise war efforts is also not a good demonstration of discipline for us nationally or globally. Having the discipline to employ diplomacy creates much better results than insults, threats, bullying, and mockery.

This is a blessing because it can spur us to consider what is happening and how it will impact our country and the world.

Lack of discipline isn’t just a war concern. Being undisciplined when dealing with the press, for example, demeans not the media but our current president. Personal attacks on the press both by our current president, his press secretary, his defense department chief, and so on, weakens the entire nation’s trust of information coming from the White House. To call reporters stupid, or piggy, lunatics, or bad people for asking questions our current president doesn’t like fails to express discipline and instead makes the Oval Office feel like an elementary school classroom.

This is a blessing because it can spur us to consider what is happening and how it will impact our country and the world.

Further, our current president has turned tariffs into yo-yos, raising and lowering them against other countries so often that many other nations have simply planned their purchases around the US, leaving us out of international trade completely. This cannot be seen as a successful result of his tariff initiative.

Insisting that tariffs are bringing in billions also demonstrates lack of discipline when We The People continue to be forced to pay higher prices for food and gas and, well, almost everything despite our current president’s promise during the campaign to be the president of peace and lower prices. To not have the discipline to deliver on campaign promises weakens that president every day the nation’s population continues to suffer.

These are all blessings because We The People are expected to demonstrate our own discipline by considering what is happening in this country at this time under our current president and how it will impact our country and the world.

If we fail to do so, it is clear that we will just continue down this undisciplined road. Is that what we really want to do?