'The significance of Ukraine's struggle certainly doesn't lie in educating Americans, but perhaps it is finally making us reckon with the costs of war, as we've needed to do for so long.'
I've been watching this country at war for many years now and, after 9/11, began spending time with American veterans who came to disdain and actively oppose the very conflicts they were sent to fight. The paths they followed to get there and the courage it took to turn their backs on all they had once embraced intrigued and impressed me, so Iabout them.
I just wish our compassion had been more capacious and had kicked in for the Afghans and Iraqis when our military invaded their countries, bombed their cities, and terrorized their people. Here, for instance, are just a few notes I took recently while listening to NPR: A woman calls one of its talk shows, feeling guilty about celebrating her daughter's birthday in style when Ukrainians are suffering so horribly. A panel on a different NPR show discusses why Americans feel so involved and its members consider all-too-uncomfortably the rationale that the Ukrainians"look like us.
That connection wasn't lost on Pat Scanlon who worked in military intelligence in Vietnam. As he followed reports of Russia's indiscriminate bombing and missiling of civilian targets in Ukraine, his post-traumatic stress disorder flared up badly."I've seen what bombs do," he told me. A member of Veterans for Peace , Scanlon is a long-standing antiwar and environmental activist.
I, too, find myself appalled and saddened by the situation and frightened by the looming dangers. I, too, want to meet the needs of those
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