https://www.newsweek.com/sorry-obama-we-arent-complicit-its-you-who-has-blood-your-hands-opinion-1841012
Sorry, Obama: 'We' Aren't Complicit. It's
You Who Has Blood on Your Hands
Newsweek, by Liel Leibovitz
Posted By: Moritz55, 11/6/2023 5:09:09 PM
In 1953, the Swiss novelist Max Frisch published a play called The Arsonists. It's a pitch dark comedy about a small town ravaged by a group of maniacs disguised as traveling salesmen, who sweet-talk their way into people's homes and then set them on fire. Its protagonist is a dolt called Biedermann—bieder being German for honest, respectable, and upright. He's aware of the danger, and yet, when the arsonists knock, he lets them in. The tragedy, Frisch argues, is that he almost has no other choice: The arsonists are such smooth talkers that it's easy, when listening to them, to ignore the large drums of kerosene and the matches