Bill Clinton - When Good Men Are Silent
Evils that befall the world are not nearly so often caused by bad men as they are by good men who are silent when opinions must be voiced. Men as in mankind, rather than not-women. An American writer in Prague, I watch our president twist in the wind---a breeze perhaps of his own making, but still merely a breeze, a zephyr of his humanity and yours and mine as well. I wish above all things, not to be a good man fallen silent.
It seems we have become a trap-setting nation, of kitchen mice and presidents. We are as well a media-led nation of followers, not the hounds on a scent we believe ourselves to be, but sheep following whatever Judas-goat is provided for us and no matter its credentials. The current model, with too many years and too many millions on his hands, failed to find the crime he was sent for and settled for whatever his mousetrap provided. Mr. Starr parodies the song, 'when I'm not near the crime I'm sent for, I send for the crime I'm near.'
He finally has what he needs, a…