[SJackson]

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[JoeFromSidney]

What is needed is to create immediately a new discourse that will suit the new situation. Without a new spirit and without a new language there will be no victory in the fighting. . . . There is no future for an Athens without a speck of Sparta. There is no hope for a society-of-life that does not know how to organize itself to deal with death. . . . We are returning to the encounter with our fate; returning to what is decreed by the reality of our lives.,/p>

I'm in no position to speak for what Israelis do or don't need. That's up to them. However, I think this is a good prescription for what the US needs. It's time we faced up to the fact that there are over a billion people out there, some of whom desperately want to kill us, and the rest of whom are willing to see it done even if they don't take part themselves.

If we survive, history will record that the "good Muslims," like the "good Germans" under Hitler, did nothing to stop the slaughter. We can't depend on "good Muslims." We can depend only on ourselves.