Refuse to choose
Sign in the crowd at the Ahmadinejad speech at Columbia:
“We refuse to choose between Islamic fundamentalism and American imperialism.”
Yep, we’ll just sit here until all of you go home. Have your war. Bomb Israel. Kill all the Jews. Execute the gays and the adulterers. Immolate the world waiting for the twelfth Imam. Go ahead. And you, U.S. warmongers, go ahead and bomb them back. Use your cruise missiles and your Stealth Bombers. Obliterate Tehran. Send in your troops and just occupy the whole frickin Middle East.
Go ahead. But we will not be a part of it. We refused to choose.
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I really like that sign. As I’ve said, I’ve been a big supporter of Bush, but I’m beginning to feel like there is such a disconnect between Bush and the rest of the country. I agree with nearly everything there.
dan, I’m not sure “disconnect” quite covers it.
The idea is the hypocrisy of thinking you can just stay out of the current cultural clash. The core of American Imperialism isn’t Bush’s invasion, where the disconnect happens from squeamishness. The imperialism is actually the presumption of Americans that they have something to say about civic morality outside their own borders.
The big point is there are sides and there are normative decisions of which everyone is part. People can’t pretend they can stand out of it.