> Let's put this a little differently: > a decent a compassionate way to war against Hitler > Um, yeah. Call it the Nimitz Way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_W._Nimitz Sure, he fought Japan rather than Germany, but the principle holds. Fight ruthlessly as a professional, because it is necessary to destroy the enemy's ability to fight. Then act magnanimously, to secure the peace. Hate is a distraction; the best way to defeat enemies is to properly respect them. I'm pretty sure Belisarius would also qualify in this category, but I presume you'd know better than I. I suspect the real difference between us is that you are certain you're the Good Guys, so you are justified in focusing 100% on defeating the Other. I believe the key to defeating the evil around us is by defeating the evil within us. Only as I truly comprehend the evil my adversaries and I share can I destroy evil at the roots, rather than play whack-a-mole at symptoms. If you’d like to see how this works, I’d love to you involved with Truth Bowl... --- For the postwar trial of German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz at the Nuremberg Trials in 1946, Nimitz furnished an affidavit in support of the practice of unrestricted submarine warfare, a practice that he himself had employed throughout the war in the Pacific. This evidence is widely credited as a reason why Dönitz was sentenced to only 10 years of imprisonment.[11] He worked to help restore goodwill with Japan after World War II by helping to raise funds for the restoration of the Japanese Imperial Navy battleship Mikasa, Admiral Heihachiro Togo's flagship at the Battle of Tsushima in 1905. -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
