Dean Esmay points us to an interview with the last surviving military leader of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising (translated from Polish). This is a man who gets it.
Interviewer: But the Americans aren’t going too well with introducing democracy in Iraq.
Edelman: That’s true, but it’s a difficult war. The Second World War went for five years. Democracy tends to be structurally weak. Dictatorship is strong. Hitler was able to mobilise several million people and chase another few million into gas chambers or slave labour. But only democracy saves the humanity and saves millions of lives. The more I see people getting murdered the more I believe that we need to put a stop to that. The murderers understand only deeds.
Bravo! This is someone who knows what tyranny is.