Gene Marx
June 7, 2024
Many of us like to ask ourselves, “What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?”
The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now.
During Bushnell’s “profound act of sincerity” the national war narrative was fraying. U.S. military and State Department resignations climbed, as the human toll soared unabated.
After resigning in protest, State Department official Stacy Gilbert remarked,
“It drives me crazy when people say, ‘You’re so principled for resigning,’” Gilbert said. “You can’t work in the government that long and be completely principled but I’m practical. I understand compromises and that there are trade-offs. But in the end, I know the difference between right and wrong.”