Dan Gets It Right

I've always thought of Dan Rather as a bit of a holier-than-thou blowhard.  But he has been through the right-wing wringer and lived to fight another day. And he still has a way of succinctly coming to the point, when it comes to the perils of our age.  This is from his Thanksgiving Facebook post:

"I am at an age where I never know how many more moments like this lie ahead, but the truth is none of us really do. And that is why we all must carve out time for peace and reflection. I say all of this acknowledging what a luxury peace is and recognizing that ...we have thousands of men and women serving in difficult and dangerous military and diplomatic missions overseas and for them and their families, there is no peace. And I reflect on the millions of my fellow Americans who are suffering in the aftermath of hurricanes and wildfires. For them, there is no peace. And of course there are the millions of personal tragedies, accidents, illnesses, and cruelties that are part of the human condition.

"We all must suffer through those, and that is why the added burden of the gratuitous and unnecessary chaos we see from our national leadership is so galling and damaging."

Nailed it.