The enemy is evil but we are good (Berry)
September 28th, 2007 | Published in Current Events, Morality, Politics, Quotes, War
Much of the obscurity of our effort so far against terrorism originates in the now official idea that the enemy is evil and that we are (therefore) good, which is the precise mirror image of the official idea of the terrorists.
–Wendell Berry, “A Citizen’s Response” in Citizenship Papers (2003), p. 5