This shouldn't be a partisan issue. As my friend Phil Klay,
winner of the National Book Award and a Marine veteran,
pointed out last year, Ronald Reagan's ``city on a hill''
speech outlined an America ``For all the pilgrims from all
the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness toward
home.''
``I get that people are scared,'' Klay continued. ``But
it's only during frightening times when you get to find out
if your country really deserves to call itself the `home of
the brave.' ''
Donald Trump's zero-sum worldview and flimsy understanding
of the intricacies of modern war and terrorism threaten to
undermine our republic. His policy on Middle Eastern refugees
and immigrants must be checked and resisted by citizens of
all political stripes, legislators of both major parties and
the judicial courts. After 16 years of war, much of my generation of military
veterans stands with the Middle Eastern people we sweated,
labored and bled with, and sometimes died for. It's going to
be a fight, but it's one we're not going to lose.
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