Posted by
Scott Keys on Sunday, March 18, 2007 7:26:52 PM
Fred Thompson calls attention to radical anti-war group Code Pink's infatuation with Mahatma Gandhi and the extreme nature of Gandhi's pacifism, of which I'll bet most people are not aware. An excerpt:
During World War II, Gandhi penned an open letter to the British people, urging them to
surrender to the Nazis. Later, when the extent of the holocaust was known, he criticized
Jews who had tried to escape or fight for their lives as they did in Warsaw and Treblinka.
“The Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife,” he said. “They should
have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs.” “Collective suicide,” he told his biographer,
“would have been heroism.”