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Everyone Supports Ukraine*
*But no one wants war.
This year on President’s Day, in our new Age of Enlightenment, it was proposed by an otherwise serious political news outlet that the holiday should be done away with.
Not because U.S. Presidents have been, at best, an imperfect lot- not unlike the leaders of other nations historically and today. Not for reasons relating to Civil Rights, the Civil War or even the Culture War.
No, according to our newest would-be cultural gatekeepers, President’s Day was tainted forever by the tenure of President Donald Trump, who degraded the office so much as to tarnish the holiday beyond repair by his inclusion.
Oh, how soon we forget.
Trump, for all his foibles and faults, is hardly the worst U.S. President we’ve ever had. Anyone who says otherwise has a strange metric, or a short memory.
What about war?
More specifically, what about nuclear war? The U.S. invented it, lest we forget.
The United States was, is, and remains the only nation ever to use nuclear weapons during wartime. Excuses, justifications, and lamentations abound but the fact remains: U.S. President Harry S. Truman made the decision to drop two nuclear bombs on two Japanese cities filled with innocent civilians.