By Regis Martin, Crisis Magazine - (have we) not just witnessed—as if the burning and looting of whole cities were nothing more than distant images on a TV screen—but actually experienced as the victims of the rampaging mobs, on whom the mobs have been feasting. Are we not faced with our very own, homegrown, Mau Mau uprising?.. What is barbarism, and why should we fear it? More to the point, why do we tolerate it?