We went into a camp to inoculate some children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn't see. We went back there, and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms.
..And I remember...I...I...I cried, I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out, I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it, I never want to forget. And then I realized--like I was shot...like I was shot with a diamond...a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought, "My God, the genius of that, the genius, the will to do that." Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they could stand that--these were not monsters, these were men, trained cadres, these men who fought with their hearts, who have families, who have children, who are filled wi th love--that they had this strength, the strength to do that. If I had ten divisions of those men, then our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have men who are moral and at the same time were able to utilize their primordial i nstincts to kill without feeling, without passion, without judgment--without judgment. Because it's judgment that defeats us.
Unfortunately, going "Kurtz" these backwards, heathen apes (and anyone associated with them), may be the ONLY way to beat them.
Sadly, it is true that most of the unspeakable horrors of this world in all ages have been committed by the religious.
“We can not choose the time in which we are born, but we can choose ourselves in this time. Exists only one race - a race of mankind, there is only one religion - religion of love, there is only one language - the language of the heart.” (C.S Lewis)
If only it were true and all other pompous, murderous zealotry were banished from the earth.
source?
Got a reference for this quote? I didn’t see it in the story, did I miss it?
I don’t buy that story. Polio vaccine has been given orally for decades. But I would not put such brutality past those savages.