Perhaps we should all be glad that letter-writer Bruce Reisner (“Non- intervention may be best for peace”) is not being considered for any serious positions involving defensive strategy. At least, let’s hope not.

His advice to the defiant and courageous Ukrainians battling to stave off an unprovoked Russian invasion is that “it’s possible the best hope for peace is a fast surrender to the admittedly brutal Russians.” Let me get this straight, Bruce: If I happen to decide that I want to assault your family and kick you out of your own house, you will capitulate without much resistance in order to avoid an unpleasant, uninvited struggle?

While waiting for you to rethink that position, I will encourage the Ukrainians to instead stay the course in their incredibly brave, intractable pushback with Churchill in mind, who, in consideration of the possible defeat and demise of Britain in World War II, rallied the nation by stating, “If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies, choking in his own blood upon the ground.”

Bill McMaster

Delmont

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