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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I wrote a whole long diatribe about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi the journalist that was an a Permanent Resident of the US who was beaten, tortured, killed, and dismembered at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.
But I am not going to run it. I’ll spare you that. I just want to ask a few questions.
What principles do we as a nation hold sacred?
And is now the time when we forever abandon these principles and values?
I say forever because once ideals and principles have been sacrificed, they are lost forever. You can’t buy them back with any amount of money or jobs or defense contracts or material things.
Things can replace things but nothing can replace lost honor and respect.
Every day we are sacrificing more and more of the honor, respect and moral authority that we once held. This was built on the “blood, toil, tears and sweat”– in Churchill’s words– of those who sacrificed through the past centuries to make this a better place.
To create a legacy that was always bending towards a more perfect union.
Is now the time to squander that legacy?
Is now the moment in which we push all honor off the cliffs of time?
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