[BlueLancer]

"The West’s leaders saying “love trumps hate” and demanding we all stand by helpless as Muslims kill us is the classic civilizational example of how an excess of empathy kills, literally."

There is something the moralists overlook,
Or more likely don’t give a damn about,
When they cry: “Pity the beaten foe!”
What they’re saying, in effect, is:
“Kill our fellows tomorrow rather than the enemy today.”
But they don’t care to have it put to them like that.
They want their wars won clean and comfortable, with a clear conscience;
Their consciences being much more precious than their own soldiers’ lives.

General Sir Harry P. Flashman
"Flashman and the Mountain of Light"
George McDonald Fraser

[tbw2]

Excellent quote.