‘OF ALL SAD WORDS…’: In 1856, the American Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier penned the famous lines, “Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: ‘It might have been!’” For Ukrainians watching President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Monday night video address, the rueful sentiment of the couplet hit poignantly home.
Over the weekend, Zelensky and his fellow Ukrainians watched from afar as a highly coordinated military operation by a multinational coalition of allies helped Israel throw up an almost impenetrable shield against a fusillade of more than 350 Iranian missiles and drones. It was a spectacular success, unprecedented in the annals of modern warfare.
“The entire world witnessed allied action in the skies above Israel and neighboring countries. It demonstrated how truly effective
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