"But perhaps we’re no longer an honorable nation." Will, was this much different than what we did in Vietnam? Perhaps we stopped being an honorable nation a long time ago. I'm not suggesting that the US military stopped, but our political masters surely did.
I read your friend's story about his sister. It feels unseemly to check a "like" box for such stories. There should be an option that says "I hear". What happened to your friend's sister is terrible beyond words. I was brought up short while reading his story by the fact that her husband left her, taking their child. Left his wife after she had been so grievously attacked. Please don't talk about cultural differences; your friend, also an Afghan, did not abandon his sister. His sister's husband was no man at all, in my view. Or my husband's.
"But perhaps we’re no longer an honorable nation." Will, was this much different than what we did in Vietnam? Perhaps we stopped being an honorable nation a long time ago. I'm not suggesting that the US military stopped, but our political masters surely did.
“Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever.”
Thomas Jefferson.
I read your friend's story about his sister. It feels unseemly to check a "like" box for such stories. There should be an option that says "I hear". What happened to your friend's sister is terrible beyond words. I was brought up short while reading his story by the fact that her husband left her, taking their child. Left his wife after she had been so grievously attacked. Please don't talk about cultural differences; your friend, also an Afghan, did not abandon his sister. His sister's husband was no man at all, in my view. Or my husband's.
Your brutal honesty is hard to respond to. Thank you.
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