Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Not far from where I live, in May of 2002, George Bush changed the rules.
He did that because he said he could. He did that because he said he needed to.For a long time, at least since WWI, war, that fundamental on earth which strains
my ability to be present and accept life on life's terms, war had been fought among civilized nations on the basis of response to a specific attack or imminent danger of attack. 

At the USMA commencement, Mr Bush on behalf of his group, including Messrs. Cheney, Rumsfeld, Feith, Perle, Yoo, Wolfowitz, Card and many others known and unknown said we, the USA, can attack other nations should we feel, intuit, suspect, decide that any nation is a threat to our interests, or is cooperating or suspected of cooperating with any nation in such standing. He did not specify what it is that our interests are clearly. He said simply we can do this. He did not define " our interests".  He left that as a given, that everyone simply understands what " Our National Interest" is.  It's a threat to our National interest.  Is that not something that changes as the time changes. Or is it an absolute.  If it is an absolute, who in the world determines what that is?

In Germany in the 1930's, Dietrich Bonhoffer said " this will not stand " when faced with Nazi tyranny and when he saw what was actually being done in the name of the Holy Fatherland. He began to take action and eventually life was sacrificed for his beliefs and values.

Vaclav Havlev stood up in Czechoslovkia.
Lech Valesa stood up in Poland.

Where are these people here?  Watching Netflix? The latest "Big Game"? 
Minding their own business up in the hills growing food and hunting deer for food?
Perhaps it is better that way.