Now is a time for serious reflection, negotiation, seeking of meetings of minds, and dedicated efforts to diffuse what could be the overtures of World War III
A few days ago I watched the 2000 movie "Thirteen Days" about the Cuban missile crisis.
It was the third or fourth time I had seen it and given the current situation with Russia and some of the outlandish talk (assassinate Putin, use first-strike nuclear missiles) I thought Thirteen Days would be timely.
It was.
Thirteen Days is set in October, 1962, and dramatizes the agonizing decision-making of President John Kennedy, closely accompanied by his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, and Kenneth O'Donnell, the president's political advisor.