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Jonathan S. Greenwald

Jonathan S. Greenwald

Jonathan S. Greenwald is the executive director of the Greenwald Family Impact Foundation.

For 11 hours, I was reminded that the real superheroes among us rarely wear capes. They are the men and women who answer the call when their nation needs them.
It is a reminder that citizens of every background, faith and opinion in the United States are part of something larger than themselves.
Systems built on delay eventually encounter the resolution they seek to avoid. And the lessons extend beyond Iran.
What was intended to be a demilitarized buffer zone between Israel and Lebanon instead became one of the most heavily armed regions in the Middle East.
Do we reward regimes that deploy armored forces against their own people? Or do we finally admit that silence is complicity?