From the editor -- War and Peace

Seventy-two years ago today, August 9, 1945, the last atomic bomb ever used was dropped on Nagasaki.

On this date, during this week, doesn’t every patriotic, heart-sensitive citizen take pause on yet another anniversary of our dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Especially if you live in the Pacific Northwest, where so many of our neighbors have Japanese ancestry?

Do we, deep down inside, realize the difference between winning and peace? Do we get that being the strongest only ensures entanglement and hated?

Who remembers the story and image of the giant Gulliver tied to the ground by the tiny Lilliputians?

Recall “The Once and Future King,” T. H. White’s novel of Camelot, set some 900 years ago. Might makes right was the confident slogan of the day. But might wasn’t the same as justice then and might isn’t justice now.

“There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.” That’s from A.J. Muste, a war resistor during World War II’s good war.

Peace is still the only way to peace. Bullies only begat bullies. Show me a bully, or a story of a bully, who battles his way to paradise, and I will agree that you have shared a truly tall tale.