America: Open for Business Re: Anniversary

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 12:21 PM -0500 9/15/02, Peter K. wrote:
>            And by the way, by not participating in the anti-war against
>the Taliban movement and speaking against it I like to think I do
>deserve some credit for the Taliban's demise and AQ's dispersion
>and disruption. There was a serious choice of action involved for
>many, many people.

That's a misuse of the word "action."  Actions necessary to go to war 
on Afghanistan and beyond were taken by the US government, not by the 
majority of apolitical Americans who did nothing in particular to 
oppose or support it in public.  That's the level of consent demanded 
of citizens in liberal democracy, for whose normal functioning daily 
political participation by citizens not only is unnecessary but would 
be a positive nuisance for the Guardians should it grow.

Instead, citizens are supposed to shop vigorously.  "America: Open 
for Business," 
<http://www.sfvisitor.org/visitorinfo/html/openbiz.html>.
-- 
Yoshie

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