The president of Brazil wrote a rational, highly intelligent and well reasoned opinion piece, which was published in today’s New York Times. Everything Lula says is not only true, but easy to see once he steps you through the logic of it.
He makes it clear that the primary target audience for his piece is the president of the United States. If the piece has one failing, it is in the implicit assumption that the president of the United States is actually capable of hearing intelligent and well reasoned arguments.
Sadly, the citizens of the U.S. have quickly learned otherwise, with tragic consequences. As my brother once told me “It’s difficult to have a rational discussion when there is nobody on the other side of the conversation.”