If you’re not already reading Arthur Silber’s blog Once Upon a Time…, you ought to start. You especially ought to read his series “Dispatch from Germany, Summer of 1939” (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3), and especially the third part on building an effective resistance to the impending war with Iran.

We cannot choose the moment in history during which we happen to spend our lives. But we can choose what we do about it, and how we try to affect the course of events, to the extent we can. We are living during an especially critical time, one that is filled with terrible dangers — and one that might change the world and our country for the rest of our lives. We may not have chosen this battle, but it is here whether we want it or not. So I hope some of you will choose to join it, on the side of peace, liberty and the infinitely precious value of a single human life.