Today is the anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Peace Corps in 1961 by president John F. Kennedy. It sends volunteer Americans to communities in partner countries around the world to provide skilled workers in education, health, entrepreneurship, women’s empowerment, and community development. Volunteers are expected to respect local customs, learn the prevailing language, and live in the same conditions as the people of the host country.
The Peace Corps represents a beautiful vision of how the United States can help the world. It is a vision that, I fear, would be completely incomprehensible to our current self-proclaimed “peace president”.
Imagine simply offering to actually help people in other lands, in a spirit of humility and mutual trust, rather than killing them or blowing them up. The entire concept would likely strike him as very odd.
What an idiot.