Learn from the Gulf War How to Win a War
The Gulf War was the most unusual in that Mamash nobody got hurt, even despite 39 scuds fired at us and destroying property (Bnei Brak Ir HaTorah, which was next door, wasn’t even touched). For months, the Jewish newspapers were filled with happy predictions and words of Bitachon, starting with R' Chaim Kanievsky Zatzal who said that they should save the gas masks for Purim. I read all the different cute and amusing articles from different Roshei Yeshivos and Jewish leaders who made Gematriyos about Saddam Hussein יִמַח שְמוֹ etc. And in the end, all the Goyish newspapers wrote: “Miracles, Miracles”!
It was super scary, and Al Pi Tevah (according to the normal rules of nature) it was a horror. But the power of Bitachon is K'dai and K'dai! The more positivism, the more you help the situation. I spent an hour and a ½ cheering up a Yeshiva Bachur in Yerushalayim, and afterwards we started hearing much more positive reports.
