Never Again

e pluribus unum

The photo is of an exhibit in the La Jolla public library. The cutout figures are holocaust survivors who live, or lived, in La Jolla.

It is reminder of how quickly what we consider human decency can slip out of control and previously unimaginable horrors escalate into an avalanche.

When our president and vice-president maliciously attacked the heroic president of Ukraine, in the Oval Office, I felt as if I were witnessing Neville Chamberlain offering Hitler the Sudetenland in return for a promise that he would not go after any other territory.

Who could have imagined our president telling the beleaguered President Zelensky that he knew Putin’s word was good?

The moment I prayed would never come, is here.

I don’t pretend to know, beyond his infantile bullying, what motivates this president. What I do know is that he is a threat to the fragile world that has been so laboriously designed and sustained since the end of WWII, to protect the Western Alliance, and the world, against the very sort of danger that Putin has ignited by his invasion of Ukraine.

Had it not been for Zelensky’s’s and the Ukrainian peoples’ brave stance, the world’s prediction that Russia would overrun the country in three days, might well have happened.

But the NATO nations, led by the U.S., took their cues from his courage and recognized that Ukraine was fighting, not only for their own freedom, but for all of our freedom.

If, in less than three months, a single man can undo two generations of peace-making, then the world will no longer have any place for peace loving people who believe in human dignity.

Call your Congress members. Support every opposition to this attempt to undo the American experiment.

It’s no longer about politics. It’s about the survival of freedom.

The witness of those people exhibited in the La Jolla public library is the witness we must now make ours.

We must retake our unprecedented national dream:

e pluribus unum.