image: An Iraqi man (R), who was arrested during a patrol, is escorted by a US soldier. Iraq may pardon insurgents willing to trade weapons for political life, the national security minister said, in a bid to end deadly violence that has pushed the country to the brink of civil war. (AFP/File/Mauricio Lima)
Cross-posted at DailyKos, Booman Tribune, and European Tribune.
Image and poem below the fold
from Child of Europe
by Czeslaw Milosz
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There can be no question of force triumphant.
We live in the age of victorious justice.
Do not mention force, or you will be accused
Of upholding fallen doctrines in secret.
He who has power, has it by historical logic.
Respectfully bow to that logic.
Let your lips, proposing a hypothesis,
Not know about the hand faking the experiment.
Let your hand, faking the experiment,
Not know about the lips proposing a hypothesis.
Learn to predict a fire with unerring precision.
Then burn the house down to fulfill the prediction.
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