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Israel, Palestine, Gaza, war, family and children
Coming up from the Metro into the Main Hall of Union Station, on my way to a prayer service for the people of Gaza, I paused to look at the Roman legionnaire statues standing guard over the crowds who entered and exited the great neo-Classical building. Appropriate statuary, I thought, for an imperial city—Rome 2000 years ago, Washington today.
Also implicit in the Secretary’s old thinking is that sacred cow of establishment thinking, deterrence. As long as we have more of the latest, fastest, most intelligent and most destructive weapons, we will not need to use them, because that will be sufficient to make our enemy think twice before taking us on. But contemporary asymmetric warfare (think 9-1l-2001, 10-7-2023), let alone the likelihood of either human or A.I. error, effectively undermines deterrence theory.
Thankfulness Buried in the Rubble
A few years ago we spent a week at Auschwitz/Birkenau in contemplation of horrors truly beyond imagination that we felt compelled to imagine nonetheless. We sat in meditation alongside the gas chambers and crematoria, in the grove where the children clung to their mothers awaiting their turn to die, letting the blood in the earth open and break our hearts.
Speaking about myself, The Gantt Report is as serious as a heart attack! Why? It is because Black people in America, in Africa, in South America, in the Caribbean, and in most other parts of the world continue to face serious problems and dangerous consequences.
Fighting on the Playground
January 6, 2021, insurrection literally may serve as a prelude to the Nation’s second Civil War. This single act more closely resembled the Carolina militia’s attack on Ft. Sumter on April 12, 1861, which led to the initial Civil War. Wikipedia defines a confederacy as a union of people for a common purpose. America’s most famous confederacy was the joining of the southern states to fight northern states to preserve slavery.
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