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Hope everyone had a happy easter. Feels like such an odd holiday sometimes.
I was thinking some about religion earlier, and I'm not sure how to capture that at the moment, still stewing on it a bit. I did want to share something I heard on the News Hour a couple days ago that resonated with me then and has stuck with me a bit since. It's about the Iraq war, but also about our country in general:
It was a war in which the United States sullied, stained and repealed one of the great American values, that is that, in wartime, war demands equality of sacrifice.
All the sacrifice in this war has been borne by the 1 percent of Americans who are in uniform and their families. The rest of us have been quietly by, especially those of us who opposed the war, and been moral defectors.
We haven't protested the fact that this is a war that our children and grandchildren will pay for. We haven't even -- we've blithely accepted tax cuts, and no draft, and no burden, paid no price, bore no burden, and accepted leadership that demanded nothing of us, and we've demanded nothing of them.
I was thinking some about religion earlier, and I'm not sure how to capture that at the moment, still stewing on it a bit. I did want to share something I heard on the News Hour a couple days ago that resonated with me then and has stuck with me a bit since. It's about the Iraq war, but also about our country in general:
It was a war in which the United States sullied, stained and repealed one of the great American values, that is that, in wartime, war demands equality of sacrifice.
All the sacrifice in this war has been borne by the 1 percent of Americans who are in uniform and their families. The rest of us have been quietly by, especially those of us who opposed the war, and been moral defectors.
We haven't protested the fact that this is a war that our children and grandchildren will pay for. We haven't even -- we've blithely accepted tax cuts, and no draft, and no burden, paid no price, bore no burden, and accepted leadership that demanded nothing of us, and we've demanded nothing of them.