A Devil's Choice indeed
The Confederate Yankee has a great post about, as he puts it, the Devil's Choice the London police faced in the recent shooting of a young Brazilian man.
The weenies of the world point out that they would not have made the same choice as the police and that, in choosing differently, an innocent man would have still been alive. That the man would still be alive may be true, but of course, should it have been a real terrorist - and next time it could be - the result would have been one dead terrorist, several dead weenies who decided not to shoot, and who knows how many dead London tube passengers.
I teach my godson that much in life is about choices: good and bad, obvious and obscure, easy and hard... and that usually (not always, so don't write nasty comments) the best choice to make is the hardest, or most difficult, or the seemingly least desirable. The easiest and most desirable choice in this case would have been not to shoot. And if you cannot see why the easy choice would have been the wrong choice then there is little hope for you, and I pray you're not a cop, soldier, or politician.
