Because it's happening now. Because if people like us don't speak up, then we are a part of it.

It's been happening now, since 9/11 at the very least. Nobody spoke up, and now that people finally are, we're busy debating whether it's a war crime and not even questioning how in the hell anyone, much less that man, presumes to have the power to arbitrarily assassinate people like that. Even if everything the regime has been claiming about those people were true, that wouldn't justify the first strike, much less the follow up strike that seems to have gotten people excited. Trump is but the latest in a long line of presidents who have asserted and exercised the right to arbitrarily and unilaterally order the deaths of people around the globe. That doing the same to the survivors of one such attempt was a bridge too far and the thing that got people riled up just seems a bit surreal.

Was not advocating we give up, the opposite of that in fact. By all means speak up and speak out, that is both necessary and needed, but unless and until we look beyond at how we got here and work towards undoing that, it will just keep happening. None of us can change the world singlehandedly, but any real change starts at the individual level and spreads outwards.

Again, sorry. You made a good case, without resorting to emotion, and I came along and vented.