From A.M. Rosenthal's last NYTimes editorial: . . . I wrote about the persecution of Christians in China. When people, in astonishment, asked why, I replied, in astonishment, because it is happening, because the world, including American and European Christians and Jews, pays almost no attention, and that plain disgusts me.
The lassitude about Chinese Communist brutalities is part of the most nasty American reality of this past half-century.
Never before have the U.S. government, business and public been willing, eager really, to praise and enrich tyranny, to crawl before it, to endanger our martial technology -- and all for the hope (vain) of trade profit. . . . nytimes.com |