My own view of Versaiiles, and subsequently, is that Germany got off fairly lightly. (View Post)

How does Israel benefit from incorporating people who are hostile to it? Land-grabbing, for its own sake, is the stupidest of policies. (View Post)

People can’t be treated as helots, forever. Eventually, they revolt. (View Post)

Prison takes dangerous people out of circulation. To that extent it works. But, it doesn't make them better people. (View Post)

Herbert Smith would be the first to agree. (View Post)