Take action or stop talking

What a city of talkers. People in this city have time to talk so much because they do so little. America-bashing lets people pretend they are versed in international affairs and keeps them safe from any need to act simply because America is so far away, "too powerful." If we complained to the slightest comparable degree about incredible human rights violations within the radius of our city or about our inhumane ignorance of the homeless or about the treatment of prisoners by our police, then some attentive listener might actually tell us to put our money where our mouth is. America-bashing needs minimal effort.

So let us keep talking. Let us implore our leaders to continue using the word "terrorist" to describe imbecile teenagers brandishing pieces of wood; let's keep writing to our newspapers merely to state that we hate America; let's ignore our country's injustices and point fingers at America; let's continue to sit down and do nothing about anything in any country. That way, if America ever uses our unchecked social injustices and oppression of females and internal "terrorist" problem and corrupted political system and anti-American sentiments as excuses to waltz over unhindered and point their M-16s at our city of rhetoricians, we would say it's because we spoke so well and sat down even better. Do something or shut up.