I grew up steeped in the "I would die for my country" or "I would die for my children" or "He died for our sins" where death was the ultimate showing of love...

...I have to sit with that.

But what I want to know is... Would you live for your country? Would you build for your children (and their children)? Would you help out your neighbor even if they don't follow your god?

Would you fix. Would you love. Would you grow, heal, and cherish for those around you?

Death is easy. Life is hard.

The greatest showing of love is to live and to help others live and to increase that quality of life.

I guess because like five of us are saying something, what was done to Chris Krebs is an absolute injustice and a mockery of his selfless service.

America no longer supports or protects critical infrastructure defenders. I hope someone else appreciates him a lot more.

I know he can’t reply.

So, Carter rightly called Israel's oppression of Palestinians apartheid in the 2000s and the Democratic party nearly shit itself when he did, roundly condemning Carter for his accurate assessment.

I'm looking at all of the liberals right now, who were happy to see anti-war campus demonstrators hauled off and brutalized by police this year, praising Carter today and I'm just wondering what they'd be saying today if they remembered this bit of history about the man.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/12/when-democrats-and-liberals-smeared-jimmy-carter-for-criticizing-israel/