I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn:
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.
W.H. Auden
Readers are invited to suggest contemporary situations to which this verse applies.
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Evidently Zawahiri, Bin Laden’s partner picked up his radical approach in Egyptian prisons, where he was tortured. Yet another reason torture tends to work against us.
Excellent comment, Ben.
Could we also say that the imperial west created the terrorists by invading and occupying their territories and now have to suffer the evil we had done to them?
By we – I mean everybody but you and I.