Where is our moral leadership?

MORAL LEADERSHIP

By Allen M.

I see where Michael Flynn thinks LSS (Lutheran Social Service)  is a money laundering operation. President Trump sues J. Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register; says they caused his campaign to spend more money in Iowa than he planned. Elon Musk feeds people and programs into a woodchipper. The Administration advocates cuts to multiple agencies and plans negotiations with Russia and somehow initially forgets mentioning Ukraine

We are where we are because it is becoming clear we are abandoning our moral leadership.

With it, great things are possible, without it, not so much.

We earned that moral leadership through the years by being a good friend, by standing by others even when they didn't pay their fair share for defense. We earned with USAID by thinking of others, the most downtrodden, first.

We earned it over many years by medical and scientific advances made possible by NIH and NSF.

We earned it by our efforts in WWII, even though if we had entered sooner more lives could have been saved.

We earned it by doing our best to hold the WWII war criminals responsible.

We earned after WWII by being clear eyed about the Soviet Union. American historian Timothy Snyder has stated that Stalin deliberately killed about 6 million of his citizens.

We earned it and then some with the Marshall Plan. I can't think of anything that makes me prouder to be a U.S. citizen than that.

Moral leadership is hard. It requires courage and sacrifice.