Russell's Thoughts

Putin Knows What to do with the Bastards

Why don't you meet Osama bin Laden, invite him to Brussels or to the White House and engage in talks.  Ask him what he wants and give it to him so he leaves you in peace?  You find it possible to set some limitations in your dealings with these bastards, so why should we talk to people who are child-killers?  No one has a moral right to tell us to talk to childkillers.

Russia doesn't negotiate with terrorists.  It destroys them.

We will corner the bandits in the shithouse and wipe them out.

Vladimir Putin
(In response to US and EU pressure to negotiate
with Chechen rebels following Breslan massacre.)

Is War a Sin?

I have purchased Jim Wallis' book, God's Politics, for study and analysis.  For my part, I would never be so presumptuous as to claim that my politics are God's as well, but I am willing to give Mr. Wallis' motives the benefit of the doubt.  (I am no man's judge.)  I have not yet read any of the book, but I have looked at the table of contents.  The title of Part III is "When Did Jesus Become Pro-war?"  This is a staggering title given what we know of the history of the Twentieth Century.

Thought for the Day

The greatest lesson from history is history itself.  The surest means of time travel is by failing to learn the lesson and thus reliving past tragedies.

Something Good from Slavery? Almost.

As evil as slavery was, and I could not wish it ever to be repeated in this nation or any other, it did bring a positive good to this nation—it brought millions of African men and women who would not have otherwise come here to become a part of the fabric of our culture.  It would be hard to imagine this nation without the important and meaningful influence of the black race.  Had it not been for the slave trade, the black community in this nation would have been microscopic.  It is difficult to imagine that very many black Africans would have voluntarily immigrated to the United States.  This is not to justify their forced migration but rather to perceive it in a different light.  We would not have ever known men like Frederick Douglass or W.E.B DuBois, or Martin Luther King Jr., and they could not have been used by God as they were to strip the anglo race of its arrogance and conceit.