Our country's military is currently deployed in a defensive posture on every continent, with the possible exception of Australia. In the last decade, we have added to Germany, Japan and Korea; Somalia, the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Iraq. Most experts believe that we are spread too thin.
The British Empire recognized that she could not maintain her colonial interests around the world and was able to recover from her colonial expansion before disaster struck. Napoleonic France, Nazi Germany, 17th century Spain, 19th and 20th century Japan and others had more painful ends to their colonial plans.
If you can relate to the history, whether the ancient history of Persia or the modern history of America, it's time to work within the law and within the branches of our government to encourage a plan that leads us, as a society, to safety without isolation.
So I say to the judge, that man had a gun. I saw it last week. He was a threat to me and my entire neighborhood. So I killed him. A brief inspection of the man's body showed no weapons.
Any judge who would not put me in jail and throw away the key, is unlikely to be dispensing justice.
We are taught by the Book of Esther, that Ahasueras himself was an affable buffoon. The danger to the Jewish people was not Ahasueras, but an ambitious advisor, named Haman. When disaster was averted, the more intelligent choice of Mordecai became the key to peace and prosperity in the post-Haman Persia.
As the election season gets closer, be sure that not only your candidates are to your liking but that his/her advisors are Mordecais and not Hamans.
From the Satz/Segal family, happy Purim.
Joshua L. Segal
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