Unarmed Truth

"I think that if the heart of man could be held down by threats - any kind of threat, whether of jail or retribution after death - then the highest emblem of humanity would be the lion tamer in the circus with the whip, not the prophet who has sacrificed himself. But don't you see! This is just the point. What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but an inward music, the irresistable power of the unarmed truth, the powerful attraction of its example."
Boris Pasternak in Dr. Zhivago

The new law on military tribunals just signed into law by President Bush adheres to lion tamers not truth. It damages our reputation, and by repudiating key protections of the Geneva Convention, it needlessly increases the danger to any American soldier captured in battle.

Sad for us all, this terrible harm to our Constitution
Terribly sad for this Veteran!