Thanksgiving Eve
Trump Stands with Saudis over Murder of Khashoggi
By Mark Mazzetti and Ben Hubbard
- Nov. 20, 2018
WASHINGTON — President Trump has long viewed foreign policy as a series of business deals, stripped of values and idealism. But his 633-word statement on Tuesday about the brutal killing of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi showed the extent to which he believes that raw, mercantilist calculations should guide the United States’ decisions about the Middle East and the wider world.
–excerpt New York Times
Allegro
by Thomas Tranströmer
After a black day, I play Hayden,
and feel a little warmth in my hands.
The keys are ready. Kind hammers fall.
The sound is spirited, green, and full of silence.
The sound says that freedom exists
and someone pays no tax to Caesar.
I shove my hands in my haydenpockets
and act like a man who is calm about it all.
I raise my haydenflag. The signal is:
“We do not surrender. But want peace.”
The music is a house of glass standing on a slope;
rocks are flying, rocks are rolling.
The rocks roll straight through the house
but every pane of glass is still whole.
“It isn’t that the evil thing wins–it never will–but that it doesn’t die.”–John Steinbeck
Be kind.
