[LINK] OT - Arab News Cartoons

[Howard Lowndes]

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Jan Whitaker wrote:

> http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=24519
> 
> Moral Clarity, War on Iraq, and the Moment
> Haani Nowailaty
> 
> "Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the 
> citizenry into patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged 
> sword. It both emboldens the blood just as it narrows the mind. And when 
> the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate 
> and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need to seize the rights 
> of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by 
> patriotism, will offer up all their rights unto the leader and gladly so. 
> How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar."

I think you will find that that one is an urban myth.
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/caesar.htm

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> Jan
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