Commentary
“If ye break faith…” People have tried to twist “In Flanders Fields” various ways, including into a pacifist manifesto, though they haven’t yet started changing the words as if it were our mere national anthem, or calling the cemeteries stolen land. But when today’s politicians put on poppies and feign reverence, I fear the dead rest uneasy.
Normally, Remembrance Day is a time to put aside polemics and divisions. But only because beneath our intellectual and verbal disagreements, we were united on the big things that made our civilization a distinctive miracle, both capable of victory time and again against long odds and worthy of it. Were, I say….