No International Court Can Ever Substitute For

In Canada, The U.s. And Most Of Europe It May Be Easy To Take Political Stands, This Is Something For Which You Can Be Forced To Pay With Your Life, Or Your Freedom, In Many Other Parts Of The World, From Iran To Russia To Pakistan To China.

Someday, I Have No Doubt, The Dead From Today's Wars Will Be Seen With A Similar Sense Of Sorrow At Needless Loss And Folly As Those Millions Of Men Who Lie In The Cemeteries Of France And Belgium - And Tens Of Millions Of Americans Will Feel A Similar Revulsion For The Politicians And Generals Who Were So Spendthrift With Others' Lives.

Ronald Reagan Perfected The Subtler Version Long Ago By Talking About "welfare Mothers" - A Code Phrase For People Of Colour.

If Your Real Wages Are Declining, Your Job Is At Risk, You Fear Your Children Will Be Worse Off Than You Are, It's Tempting To Want To Blame It All On An Easily Identifiable Target: Muslims, Immigrants, Refugees, Blacks, Jews.

I Think [george] Orwell Is Right. There Are Certainly Moments When Political Differences Appear Minor, And Someone Can Claim To Be Non-political Or To Want To Stay Out Of The Fray, But Today Is Not One Of Those Moments.