Source: http://otherwords.org/our-presidents-word-wars/
By Olivia Alperstein
June 21, 2017
By Olivia Alperstein
June 21, 2017
These days I find
myself thinking often about a cartoon by the late Theodore Geissel.
In it, a woman with a
sweater that reads “America First” reads aloud from a storybook to two
children: “And the Wolf chewed up the children and spit out their bones,” she
relays. “But those were Foreign Children and it didn’t really matter.”
Geissel — better known
as Dr. Seuss — was criticizing Americans’ purposeful isolationism during World
War II. But it’s never felt more prescient, as a sitting American president
embarks on a dangerous and deadly new “America First” policy.
