Op-Ed: Compared to How We Handled the Soviet Union, Current Response to Russia Is Jaw-Dropping
Forever ago, in the home of the brave. In those days, the B-52s would lumber back from wherever they had been to the airbase up the road, the only thing worth seeing on a long third-grade afternoon. Some days, I would…
Forever ago, in the home of the brave.
In those days, the B-52s would lumber back from wherever they had been to the airbase up the road, the only thing worth seeing on a long third-grade afternoon. Some days, I would see them after my little school did the nuclear drills for the day the Soviet Union would drop a bomb on us.
And I knew — knew with the naive faith as rusted as any ’57 Plymouth in a junkyard — that America was safe another day, that the Soviet Union would not win this Cold War, and that the greatest country in the world then or ever would protect not only me but every third-grader everywhere.
Run that dream down the flagpole as Russia gobbles up whatever it wants of Ukraine while Washington dithers and pretends that limp-wristed sanctions make our commander in chief Biden the Bold. America the indolent, the impotent. Shame.
Oh, no one should harbor delusions about Ukraine and its government. In the 30 years since the Soviet Union fell, there might have been one honest politician in the lot. But the same can be said of Chicago, and allowing innocent people to die for the incompetence of their politicians is not Biden administration policy there.
But what burns is the fact that Ukrainian men and women who believed deep in their souls that the U.S. would protect the free and the weak and those praying for a chance to avoid living under the heel of a conqueror have been abandoned.