Russia

Every time I feel compelled to thank Russia for helping to win World War II, I recall that it had inked a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany before the war ... and, afterward, annexed half of Europe under totalitarianism.

Responsibility

Are the people of San Francisco responsible for the deterioration of their city? The people of Venezuela responsible for their failed country? The people of Iran responsible for the insanity of their ayatollahs? The people of Nazi Germany responsible for the holocaust?

You know what? I have come to believe that a city or a country is the sum total of its people. And if these people live in a totalitarian shithole, they cannot shed the responsibility for what they have allowed to occur. The Iranians might be overall good people who like America and what we represent. But, if they allow their government to sponsor terrorism throughout the Middle East ... and their leaders to strive for the possible nuclear destruction of the world, then they are just as guilty as whom they have allowed to govern.

Sorry, kind readers, but yes, an evil society can contain a whole lot of good people. However, if there is enough evil in each of them that it accumulates to an overall evil ... then this society cannot be considered as good.

Reprise: The morality of a society is an amalgam of the morality of its people. — Anon.

Headlines

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Navy: Sailor staged racist vandalism ...

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Egypt discovers even MORE hidden ancient tombs

Could law used to bring down mob [RICO] be used in Weinstein case?

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Obama: Protect democracy or risk taking path of Nazi Germany

[CA Gov.] Jerry Brown claims Trump does not nave 'a fear of the Lord'

Iraq says its war has ended ...

EXCLUSIVE Jackie Mason on Gloria Allred: She makes Hillary Clinton seem honest

The British Dichotomy

In an uncharacteristic non-Dartmouth-related post, Joseph Asch recounts Winston Churchill's courageous words and deeds in resisting Nazi Germany's aggressions leading up to the Second World War ... contrasting them with President Obummer's appeasing actions surroundong his Iranian nuclear capitulation ... see: Dartblog Posting.

I suppose we now have a clue as to why Obummer, in one of his first actions as president, had Churchill's bust removed from the Oval Office,

And, on a more personal level, even as a young boy, I can still recall my dismay as the British electorate jettisoned Churchill from the office of Prime Minister shortly after the war was over in favor of that twit, Clement Attlee and then later that fop, Anthony Eden. The national psyche of Britain exhibits a clear dichotomy ... rising to greatness in times of crisis ... only to mortgage it all as soon as leisure permits.

Do we see a parallel psyche here in the United States?