Ping
Sorry to say Christians and Jews are naive. The turn the other cheek, give your cloak and your coat and all that adds up to a form of the Buddhists’ and Ghandi’s nonviolence.
Like someone who holds a hostage and the police set down their weapons, the violent ones have all the power on earth.
And they use it on the hapless victims.
Those who are kind to the cruel
will in the end be cruel to the kind-— Talmud on Ecclesiastes.
Sue Thomas would weep.
Why did we fight the Cold War? This is a real question. For what did the millions of Americans who served in the armed forces from 1947 to 1990 serve for? Is shame and remorse what any traditional American should feel towards their government?