A Nation of Bartlebys
Playing The Cover Your Ass Game
How do they keep getting away with secrecy, lies, abuse, torture -- even cold-blooded murder? The answer is painfully obvious. It's because we let them. We the Media, We the Congress and We the People. We are to blame for what is happening in Iraq. We can't say we didn't know, or there's nothing we can do about it now. We knew. And, if we continue to stand mute and to play by their rules, it is because -- like Melville's Bartleby -- we prefer not to take a stand. We cannot allow ourselves to be so shocked and horrified at the voracious creature we have become that we prefer to cringe before a blank wall rather than admit our complicity in the barbaric crusade we have unleashed upon the world.
