“There are cases which cannot be overdone by language and this is one.
\nThere are persons, too, who see not the full extent of the evil
\nwhich threatens them; they solace themselves with hopes that the
\nenemy, if he succeeds, will be merciful.
\nIt is the madness of folly to expect mercy from those who have refused
\nto do justice, and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only
\na trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence
\nof the wolf, and we ought to guard equally against both”. Tom Paine.
\nIt is uncanny how the eloquent observation above, penned some two
\nhundred and forty years ago, describes so succinctly the quandary
\nAmericans face today vis-\u00e0-vis the upcoming election and the cuntdidates.
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