“There are cases which cannot be overdone by language and this is one.
There are persons, too, who see not the full extent of the evil
which threatens them; they solace themselves with hopes that the
enemy, if he succeeds, will be merciful.
It is the madness of folly to expect mercy from those who have refused
to do justice, and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only
a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence
of the wolf, and we ought to guard equally against both”. Tom Paine.
It is uncanny how the eloquent observation above, penned some two
hundred and forty years ago, describes so succinctly the quandary
Americans face today vis-à-vis the upcoming election and the cuntdidates.
Islander