On Trump Intervening in Iran

Kitty Genovese

I guess I’m one of those neocons everyone objects to these days, on the left and on the right. A “war pig.” 

Two words: Kitty Genovese.

Kitty Genovese was raped and murdered in an apartment stairwell. None of her neighbours did anything. Nobody called the cops. After all, it was not their business.

Who believes they were in the right?

Evil occurring anywhere in the world is always our business. All men are brothers. If we are aware of evil happening, as in Iran, and we are realistically able to do so, we have a moral obligation to step in and prevent it. “None so guilty as the innocent bystander.” “All that is necessary for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing.”

Pacifism, to my mind, is cowardice and selfishness masquerading as virtue.