Letters to the Editor
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GC
Thanks very much for that wonderful post. Well said.
When this latest debacle was just warming up, I wondered aloud, in public meetings, book readings and college classrooms, whether we were ready to absorb the costs (in addition to the tangible ones) of an eroding moral fabric, the upticking trend of atrocities that always accompany such long and bitter fighting as it was easy to imagine (though easier to forget), the other moral contortions that we would inevitably find ourselves in as we denied, isolated, divided and hated.
My imagination was unequal to what has actually happened. Serious as the damages I could project were, they were nothing compared to what's happened. Still, people looked at me with skepticism and disbelief (on this point, anyway).
I wish you'd been there.