Who attacks a Ukrainian children’s hospital, filled with kids awaiting cancer treatments and organ transplants, brave children fighting for their lives, children on drips waiting for their procedures, unwell children who because of the attack see the procedures stopped, frightened children then transported by trucks to other hospitals, with shocked medical staff and desperate grieving parents following? Who attacks such a hospital?
We’ve seen such attacks on hospitals in Gaza and Ukraine. Monsters commit such atrocities. Psychopaths do. Sociopaths do. Barbarians do. Russia does. Their leader is a punk called Putin, who is admired by the presidential nominee of one American political party, who has stated his admiration for ruthless authoritarian leaders everywhere, such as in China, North Korea, and formerly in Brazil.
Democracy, freedom and even humaneness are threatened today in many places. The leader of Uganda days ago sentenced a man to six years in prison for criticizing him, criticism also not tolerated in Russia, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, et alia. Unless we in the USA actively refuse authoritarianism and divisiveness and intolerance, we could be added to the list. The decision is ours. France just made its correct decision. What will ours be?
