Dancing with Demons: America’s Long Love Affair with War and Death

Nancy O’Brien Simpson  Friends, be real. What would you say if Russia dropped a nuclear bomb on Kyiv and called it “peace”?  Boom!  Russia dropped the big one. Every child, every grandmother, every ordinary life gone. Would you think that was a good idea to end the Ukraine War? That is not a hypothetical. That is us. We are the only nation on earth that has done it. Hiroshima. Nagasaki. We dropped atomic bombs.  We turned human beings into shadows burned onto walls and told ourselves it was necessary.