Jenner as a photojournalist David Barnett As he tells it, he’s not thinking about the war in the abstract. He thinks about his best friend, Oscar McClure, then a young gunner, watching his friend say his final farewell from the plane next to him. It’s a long way from the speech he’s giving this week, but that’s what D-Day still means to those who were there.
The youthful President Biden, who was, of course, just a toddler on the day of the Normandy landings, will mark the anniversary Thursday with French President Emmanuel Macron and other leaders. Lee Hochsteder Lee noted that this could give Macron an opportunity to announce a dangerous new provocation in the ongoing war on Europe’s fringe: sending French military trainers to Ukraine to repel Russian aggression. Biden has so far avoided sending U.S. troops on the ground even as the red lines have become more like “faded pink dots,” but French troops would be Vladimir Putin’s biggest test of restraint yet.
Much depends on France’s decision – and other Western decisions – about how much to extend aid to Ukraine. Max Boot Note. Is it not just World War 3, but some kind of eternal battle between good and evil?
Americans like to think of the moral universe as trajectory toward justice, but in the real world, the bad guys sometimes win, Max writes, and he sees something as big as liberal democracy itself at stake in this fall’s election.[Donald] “Trump has incited an insurrection and vowed revenge on his enemies, and he is leading Biden in most battleground states. Like many Americans, I never imagined that a disgraced, twice-impeached and now-felon president would return to office, but it seems entirely possible,” Max wrote.
Don’t like it? Well, there’s no need to prepare for war (yet!) If you’re a voter, you can decide what happens at the ballot box, at least for now.
To be sure, the Supreme Court is deeply divided on many issues. Editorial Committee The committee urges people not to overlook the unanimous decision that state officials cannot legally pressure financial institutions to stop doing business with the NRA because of the organization’s political speech. “The obvious problem is that this could set a precedent not only for other unpopular organizations in New York State, but also for organizations that are as unpopular in Republican states as the NRA is in Democratic states. Consider, for example, that Planned Parenthood could face similar tactics in Louisiana,” the committee wrote.
Karen Tumulty Here are some interesting highlights from the Texas Republican Party’s 50-page platform: The Bible should be taught in public schools! The names of Confederate leaders should be put back on military bases! Only Republicans should be able to run for state office! Technically, it just says that to run for state office, you need to win more than half of the state’s mostly rural, Republican counties in addition to the popular vote, but as Karen explains, that’s the same thing.
“The document, approved at the party’s biennial convention in late May, is not a serious policy roadmap. But it does reveal a party identity that has deviated to an extreme degree,” Cullen wrote. And, in her analysis, this extremism threatens to turn Texas blue rather than red in the near future.
- Why is everyone so hard on Sam Alito over his “free-spirited” flag-loving wife? Kathleen Parker wonder.
- Jen Rubin We examine President Trump’s immediate actions in criticizing the judge and jury after he was convicted of 34 felony counts.
- EJ Dionne It takes a closer look at the rise of the far-right in Europe and how parties further to the left are dealing with it.
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