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Thursday, July 20, 2006
"... ever devising new evils"
Tolkien's The Silmarillion is my bathroom reading nowadays. After the Noldor return to the east and settle in and around Beleriand, they engage in what we'd now call a cold war ever besieging and on guard against Morgoth, who is described by Tolkien as "ever devising new evils" to rape, slaughter and pervert creation. What leapt to mind immediately was an NPR report this morning on Israel's current war against Hezbollah, in which the reporter lamented the absence of a "cease fire". How can one make truce with evil? Islam's modern incarnation is ever devising new evils to visit on its enemies; a truce or cease-fire would itself be evil.
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