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I like the matter-of-factly way that Gingrich places an entire religion into a cubbyhole next to a now non-existent racist, antisemitic, fascist political party and its ally, a now non-existent empire guilty of horrendous war crimes.
The fact is, the Nazi party couldn't place anything anywhere because they don't exist.
The Empire of Japan couldn't place anything in Pearl Harbor because it doesn't exist.
Isn't it odd how the Germans and the Japanese aren't viewed as The Enemy? Why is that?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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