destroyed Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, and we are all better for it. Imagine if we negotiated a "peace" with those enemies: we would still be fighting them. Same with Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran: crush them". He sighed, shook his head, and left. You are right: timeless truths are unknown, denied or rejected by the Left for a make-believe world that has not existed and does not now exist. What will it take for leftists to see the danger? Missiles falling inside Tel Aviv and Jerusalem won't do it, as we now see. Will a mushroom cloud finally do it? Your analysis is correct. Unfortunately, men are, and always will be, barbarians at heart. The only real difference between us and the cave dwelling barbarians of old is technology. What has made the West less barbaric is Judeo-Christian culture and values. Unfortunately, our effete liberal "elite" has grown up in a Judeo-Christian world that has acted like a protective cocoon, sheltering them from mankind's barbaric nature and therefore making the idea of children being raised to be human bombs beyond their ability to comprehend, and so they pretend it does not exist. Leftists will not see the danger until it is their own throat that is being slit. Here we are; nearly EIGHTY years after the Japanese surrender in World War II -- and the Left still can't accept the way it ended. It's a common trope around the Left that Japan was ready to surrender, but President Truman ignored the