ADWIG? Maybe. We won’t know until it gets it, I suppose, whatever “it” turns out to be.
The gate is narrow and darkly-sighted, mortal human beings miss it almost always.
America – and its people and its allies – are called on, unfairly, to be leaders of a dreamed-of and partially realized free and progressive world. But that world is increasingly threatened by strongman, autocratic and aggressively expansionist governments in Russia, China, Iran and their wealthy, influential friends and allies around the globe. They have come to our free societies and threatened our values, our culture and, increasingly, our survival. Civility doesn’t stop them. They counter with belligerence. They are in our parliaments, promising to defeat our laws with their growing numbers.
How do we respond? Give up and let them take away and make meaningless centuries of struggle for human rights, just because we are too good to get our hands dirty with the violence required to defeat them? Let them make a mockery of “never again”? Forget and abandon those from whose failing hands we took up the torch to continue the quarrel with our common foe?
Free societies around the globe are electing populist, nationalist, some would say racist governments to oppress and eject/deport these cuckoos from our nest. America’s new president has promised to “Make America Great Again” with his own nationalist, authoritarian, and aggressively expansionist counter to the menace free societies face. We don’t know what will happen yet but we can’t stop it now.
ADWIG? Maybe. We won’t know until it gets it, I suppose, whatever “it” turns out to be.
The gate is narrow and darkly-sighted, mortal human beings miss it almost always.
America – and its people and its allies – are called on, unfairly, to be leaders of a dreamed-of and partially realized free and progressive world. But that world is increasingly threatened by strongman, autocratic and aggressively expansionist governments in Russia, China, Iran and their wealthy, influential friends and allies around the globe. They have come to our free societies and threatened our values, our culture and, increasingly, our survival. Civility doesn’t stop them. They counter with belligerence. They are in our parliaments, promising to defeat our laws with their growing numbers.
How do we respond? Give up and let them take away and make meaningless centuries of struggle for human rights, just because we are too good to get our hands dirty with the violence required to defeat them? Let them make a mockery of “never again”? Forget and abandon those from whose failing hands we took up the torch to continue the quarrel with our common foe?
Free societies around the globe are electing populist, nationalist, some would say racist governments to oppress and eject/deport these cuckoos from our nest. America’s new president has promised to “Make America Great Again” with his own nationalist, authoritarian, and aggressively expansionist counter to the menace free societies face. We don’t know what will happen yet but we can’t stop it now.
God help us all.