seanessay.com My main interest is ethics—what does little old me know about cluster bombs? This week many groups and governments, including Canada, have spoken out against the US giving them to Ukraine. I know that many nations—but not Russia, US and Ukraine—have banned them. Because cluster bombs break into a cluster of smaller bombs that […]
Being Judged at the Imperial War Museum
seanessay.com …Fear of the very existence of honest Ukraine impelled violence, for a dictator’s lies always require violence to exist, just as violence always requires lies to exist…From ideas of Solzhenitsyn (Sean Crawford ) A young man asked me, “Do you work here?” (My rucksack and tourist hat were in a locker) I answered “No, but try […]
Canada Versus the Orcs, 1972
seanessay.com My niece, two decades ago, asked me, “Uncle, what’s a communist?” The girl was innocent about the Reds smothering free thought over a quarter of the globe: Just as certain adult well meaning liberals are today. As an American philosopher would say—Looking at you, Germany—those who forget the history of Russian Orcs are condemned […]
Forsaking Freedom
seanessay.com Would I give up a year or two of my life, or ask a young man to do so, for the cause of freedom? Right now there are nations in Europe, not all of them in NATO, that enforce a year or two of conscription, what Americans loosely call “the draft.” I can see […]
Recruit School is Really Scary
seanessay.com (under a thousand words) One of my college classmates sobbed during her brief time in a British police academy. She later wondered, as many civilians do: Why are recruit classes for police and the armed forces so hard? When civilians ask “What time did they make you get up in the morning?” or “How […]
From Parade Drill to Patrolling
seanessay.com (under 1,000 words) Sometimes I think about free citizens rushing into training for the war in Ukraine. I imagine older volunteers would guard prisoners and checkpoints. As for the younger guys, I guess their commanders could seize every spare moment to train them, beyond the indelible training of being in the “front lines.” Or, […]