When Heroism is Our Only Alternative

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
November 12, 2007

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/234/when-heroism-is-our-only-alternative

Excerpt:

This Amazon warrior has become something of a schoolmarm, a veritable Ms Manners of the raging Cultural Wars. Thus, say I, “I don’t like delivering savage soundbites nor does debate as a blood sport turn me on.” Primly, I say: “Ideological opponents should engage in civilized exchanges and they should keep talking rather than retreating into dangerous silences or into overt warfare.

Oh what fine and pretty words–but what about those moments in history in which we must either act or we become collaborators in the death of others?

Either we rescue the child trafficked into sexual slavery or she dies, both slowly and soon enough, while she is still young. Either we rescue the victims of genocide or they die. There are no second chances. Memorial plaques and Truth and Reconciliation Committees do not resurrect the dead.

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