I was looking back at some older posts and ran across one that still resonates with me. At that time our national “leadership” was threatening to invade Mexico, and these were my thoughts:
Nothing about the current situation with Venezuela or any other country has changed my mind about the real reason behind the problem.
Walt Kelly is credited with the phrase “We have met the enemy and he is us” in his Pogo comic strip in 1970 or so. According to https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walt_Kelly, he also had this to say back in 1953:
Traces of nobility, gentleness and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly. It is just unfortunate that in the clumsy hands of a cartoonist all traits become ridiculous, leading to a certain amount of self-conscious expostulation and the desire to join battle.
There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tinny blast on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us. Forward!
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