If achieving world peace required torturing a single baby, asks a character in Fyodor DostoyevskyÂ’s The Brothers Karamazov, would it be worth it?
“Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last, but that it was essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature — that baby beating its breast with its fist, for instance — and to found that edifice on its unavenged tears, would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me, and tell the truth.”
The liberalism that Barack Obama seeks to complete answers DostoyevskyÂ’s question with an emphatic yes. What is ObamaÂ’s abortion-on-demand-forever policy but the building of a modern American way of life upon the graves of tortured babies? And not just the unavenged tears of one baby but millions of them.
This week, however, Obama did avenge the tears of terrorists. World peace, he said, isn’t worth theirs. He lectured the CIA that “What makes the United States special and what makes you special is precisely the fact that we are willing to uphold our values and ideals even when it’s hard.”
George Neumayr, The American Spector
