Political and social observations from two aspiring hedgehogs who love the Isaiah Berlin essay.
Bret Stephens, writing in the Wall Street Journal, shoots down the shibboleth that "there is no military solution to terrorism." To the contrary, as he demonstrates is happening right now in Sadr City, Sri Lanka and Columbia, "it turns out that the best way to end an insurgency is, quite simply, to beat it."
posted by The Kosher Hedgehog at 10:17 PM
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"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." --Archilochus
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
--John Adams, 'Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials,' December 1770.
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