If/Then

Edmund Burke said "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."

But what are we to do, the good people of this world? What can we really do to make a change in the way this human existence is eating itself alive when our votes don't count or they don't take our vote at all to begin with?
I cannot read the news sometimes...

If my country bombs Iran, or should I say 'when' for isn't it only a matter of time with all this setting-of-the-stage going on? They call it diplomacy, I call it scriptwriting...foreshadowing...

If my country bombs Iran I will be faced with casting my vote in the only way that can make a difference anymore...giving up my citizenship.

This American passport is worth so very much, allowing me a nearly global freedom of movement I simply wouldn't have otherwise. And, it is my ticket back to my family...my parents - who have yet to meet my Persian husband. But what else can I do at this point? I've made the choice to leave the country, abandoning the comforts of the west for an elevated third-world existence...but does it matter? Hardly.

The path to Iran as Bush's next pet-project is being cut deeper and wider each day, as the media is used to again generate fear in American society...'the leader of Al Quaeda is in Iran' they say...'remember what they did only a few Septembers ago?' they say, and middle America signs up to go to war with giant American flag stickers on the back windows of their 4 by 4's.
Reactionary.

And a recent poll reveals the effect this info-junk has had on Americans - they are afraid of Iran.

That's exactly how Bush and all of his pocket-protectors want it. If Americans are afraid they are more likely to support an offensive against Iran.

Well, I'm not particularly afraid of Iran...what I do fear is George Bush's agenda, and being counted among the populous who did and said nothing while our 'elected' leader went on a rampage, country to country...demolishing cultures, and faiths, and families along the way.

It's a ridiculous hypocrisy at this point, this argument about nuclear weapons, while my own county harbors a stockade that could blast us all to hell in fifteen seconds.

With Edmund Burke's words in my heart, I am inspired by acts like those of my uncle - writer/activist Larry Kerschner of Pe Ell, Washington who is willing to go to jail for the peace that he believes in.
I think he is exactly the kind of person Mr. Burke had in mind when he made his definitive statement on the battle between good and evil.