Thursday, March 20, 2003

Courage and Resistance

As our Great Nation begins a war of conquest, I would like to take this moment to point out that it's hardly America's first adventure in regime change. The United States has supported tyranny in the past, and has replaced "bad" tyrants with "good" tyrants repeatedly. America has even trained and equipped thugs in the subtle art of oppressing populations.

This time, however, is quite different. For the first time, a sitting President is openly, brazenly waging total war on an essentially defenseless country for the sole purpose of taking it over. This is being done in defiance of the United Nations that the White House purports to uphold and the Security Council it claims to make relevant. It is being done without any official international body, and most of the members of the "coalition of the willing" are neither providing combat troops nor enjoying the support of their people at home.