No essay today,
because I sent a letter
to my member of parliament.
Greetings,
(Of course I haven’t bothered e-mailing anyone in the British Embassy or the Brit government, as that is above my pay grade)
Regarding the Straight of Hormuz,
For Canadians and our allies. including Britain, well, our spy services don’t have the budget to operate in the US,
BUT non-spy sources say this whole “straight of Hormuz thingy” may, in part or in whole, be for the sake of an ongoing effort to have a series of distractions to thwart the US legislation to release the Epstein files… an effort that some people in the White House would like to see “normalized” and therefore no longer talked about.
Putting our young men and women in harm’s way to obstruct releasing the Epstein files is offensive to me. Even the barest possibility is offensive. A rumour might easily start up among the young that hurts their morale.
I think that before we or the British take action, we should ask the White House to show sincerity and good will towards our innocent servicemen by releasing the files.
After all, war and foreign policy is expensive and complicated, but releasing the files is cheap and easy.
… …
… …
Sean Crawford
Hoping the ceasefire ends
So that the clock restarts
So that congress can finally obey their law
To check with the president
“Sixty days after a presidents starts a surprise war”
Or surprise bombings of Cambodia with fits and starts and ceasefires,
(From February 28)
May 20,
2026
After thought: foreign policy and economics are not things our enthusiastic young sailors, some too young to vote, expect to know about. Rather, they expect old guys like me, including old guys in congress, to gravely consider before sending them into harm’s way. But they do feel entitled to an opinion on releasing the Epstein Files.
It’s a social contract as old as the temptation to let out one’s frustrations on South Vietnamese communist villagers: “We the young will follow your orders, but you have to know what you are doing.”
What happens if congress fails to know? (by not researching, not interviewing the president and others under oath) After the My Lai massacre, Psychology Today did a poll, asking not did the massacre take place, asking not whether Lieutenant Calley was guilty, but instead asking Should he have gone to trial? Most respondents said NO… because the social contract was broken.
Now I am a frail “member of the older generation” determined not to break faith with our young people.
