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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (197091)	10/28/2001 6:11:59 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (1) of 769670

Tyrants may always fail but even Gandhi did not say why, except that they are defeated by Right, .....always. Aren't we Right to try and defeat Tyrants? Gandhi also says Jews should have walked willingly to their deaths, the better to make their plight more visible to the world. Orwell adds that after the war Gandhi justified his position, saying, "The Jews had been killed anyway and might as well have died significantly." Again, he was making a tactical, not a principled, statement. One has to ask what the consequences of the actions he recommended would have been. That's speculation based on little evidence. But for him to have made that recommendation at the time would have been grotesque. What he should have been emphasizing is: "Look, powerless people who are being led to slaughter can't do anything. Therefore it's up to others to prevent them from being massacred." To give them advice on how they should be slaughtered isn't very uplifting -- to put it mildly. As Orwell would say in his essay on Kipling "[Kipling] sees clearly that men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilised, are there to guard and feed them."

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