Sunday, April 16, 2006
Business as Usual
In a day, or week, or month, when the bombs start falling on Iran, American liberals will undoubtedly complain privately about the treachery of our country's rulers. They won't likely take to the streets en masse, shutting down business as usual for a day or two. They certainly won't storm federal buildings or riot or otherwise make their rage known.
Sabotage, riot, and insurrection haven't been seen on our shores for a long time. For that matter, neither has civil disobedience, strike, or boycott against tyranny of the sort we now take for granted.
And so, while obedient Americans go about collecting their paychecks, shopping, and keeping their mouths shut publicly, the slaughter of its children and that of Iran's will proceed unabated, unresisted.
Sabotage, riot, and insurrection haven't been seen on our shores for a long time. For that matter, neither has civil disobedience, strike, or boycott against tyranny of the sort we now take for granted.
And so, while obedient Americans go about collecting their paychecks, shopping, and keeping their mouths shut publicly, the slaughter of its children and that of Iran's will proceed unabated, unresisted.
