Of course it’s best not to start a cooking fire in the first place, but if it happens, do we stand around until the whole house is engulfed in flame or do we use the fire extinguisher hanging in the pantry?

Same deal with preventing forest fires. Better to cook over a stone fire pit and completely cover up the embers when we’ve finished. But if a spark does get caught in the wind and lands in a patch of dry grass, don’t we try to stomp it out and call 911, or do we wait until it turns into a conflagration?

So why are we waiting for the kitchen fire in Ukraine to turn into a raging fire that engulfs Europe before the US and NATO stop sitting on their hands?

Today Russia bombed a maternity and children’s hospital. President Biden–this is a war crime! It’s time to give Ukraine all the air power it asks for–and time to send in US air support if Ukraine asks for it. We started the Vietnam War over a so-called Gulf of Tonkin Incident that President Johnson presented to Congress and the American people as an unprovoked attack on an American vessel. In reality poorly trained young Navy gunners most likely were shooting at high waves.

There is no ambiguity what Russia is doing in Ukraine, putting two nuclear reactors at risk now and bombing apartments and hospitals. It’s time to give President Zelensky everything he asks for!