Things have reached rock-bottom, perhaps, since the rumors that the government of the United States is considering an
unprovoked first-strike nuclear attack against Iran can't be dismissed out of hand, especially since "national defense assests" have been alerted in a way that makes it appear that an attack on Iran is (perhaps) imminent. There seems to be some doubt whether there could actually be "plausible deniability" about such an attack, but there's not doubting that such thinking has been typical of the way the Bush Administration has
gone about doing things.
Of course, such thinking is morally, politically and geo-politically insane. If such a thing were to happen it would argue for the mental instability of the people in charge in a way that nothing else they've done up to now really has done (as bad as those things have been).
I would like to suggest that if Bush & Cheney attack Iran, without provocation or authorization, that an effective response would be to pick a day and organize and publicize a General Strike. Not people marching in the streets or rioting or even associating in groups, just for one day everyone stay home from work, keep your kids home from school, don't drive, don't shop (in person or online), don't consume anything more than the minimum necessary. Withhold your services, withhold your participation, make a showing that can be measured in many places of the depth and breadth of our revulsion for what will have been done in our names, without our approval or permission.
A silent protest for an insane and dangerous act.
[cross-posted to unfutz]