http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/12182Martin Luther King Jr. got it: Primary day was also MLK's real birthday. He has now been dead longer than he was alive. But he understood. Here's what he said on April 4, 1967, exactly one year before he was killed. Do yourself a favor. Read this, and substitute one word: Iraq for Vietnam. Read this and think of him, and us. And then go to work in whatever way you choose to try to fix this country:
Now, it should be incandescently clear that no one who has any concern for the integrity and life of America today can ignore the present war. If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read: Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it destroys the deepest hopes of men the world over. So it is that those of us who are yet determined that America will be {saved} are led down the path of protest and dissent, working for the health of our land ... over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words, "Too late." There is an invisible book of life that faithfully records our vigilance or our neglect. Omar Khayyam is right: "The moving finger writes, and having writ moves on." We still have a choice today. Let's hope we have one tomorrow. Amen, Dr. King.
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