Jackson50 said:
The backhand is understandable and possibly justifiable. Immediately before he backhanded her, she moved towards him quickly and seemingly agressively. Striking her with the truncheon, however, was not justified. |
she moved towards him quickly and seemingly agressively
That earned her a strike with the truncheon. She should have been arrested at that point.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
