November 18, 2015
I know, I know. If I’m going to have
a blog, I have to keep it up. My apologies. I hope I haven’t lost the few
readers I had. All kinds of things got in the way, none of them a valid excuse.
I can only say I will try never to do that again.
A lot has happened since I last
wrote, but to me the most dismaying were the attacks on Paris . I know I’m not alone in feeling the
same way I felt after 9/11, but also there’s a touch of the way I felt living
in New York
during Son of Sam. It’s a little scary to go outside.
We all know there is evil in the
world, and to our credit, we seem to pull together when it manifests itself.
The around-the-world response to Friday night in Paris was quick and touching. Our finest
hour. It wasn’t until Saturday that I heard someone use the attacks as a
political instrument, and of course it was, who else? Donald Trump. (I guess he
doesn’t like being referred to as “The Donald” anymore. I haven’t heard that in
months.) He thinks we should ban all refugees from Syria . Period. Jeb Bush evidently
wants to allow Christians only to come in. My question is: What happened to “Give
me your tired, your poor…” What about the “wretched refuse yearning to be free…”
? Do we just trash all those values and standards? If so, what’s left? This is
supposed to be a free society we have here. To me, that means we let everybody
in. Terrorists? We’ve been told for years they are already among us. What’s
changed? The attacks in Paris were hideous, but
they didn’t suddenly signal every terrorist in Europe and the Middle
East to join the flood of refugees. Obviously that’s what Isis wants us to think, but it seems ridiculous to me.
Well, this turned into quite a rant.
Let me know what you think. It’s good to be back.
I missed you. Glad you are back!
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