(November 9, 2015 at 2:55 pm)abaris Wrote:(November 9, 2015 at 2:45 pm)Minimalist Wrote: We seem to create new enemies every day. Somehow we are under the impression that killing their relatives has no impact on the survivors.
Exactly, and I rather not live in a world where Himmler's word ever becomes a reasonable strategy.
Actually, I don't think you can give Himmler the credit for that "strategy." It is much, much, older.
Quote: 1Sa 15:3
Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.