"Dex" <
D...@music.com> wrote in message news:519FEFBB...@music.com...
> Not only that but Churchill wrote that fighting Muslims in Sudan. Soon
> became older and wiser when he said :-
>
> "..there are many people in England, and perhaps elsewhere, who seem to be
> unable to contemplate military operations for clear political objects,
> unless they can cajole themselves into the belief that their enemy are
> utterly and hopelessly vile. To this end the Dervishes, from the Mahdi and
> the Khalifa downwards, have been loaded with every variety of abuse and
> charged with all conceivable crimes. This may be very comforting to
> philanthropic persons at home; but when an army in the field becomes
> imbued with the idea that the enemy are vermin who cumber the earth,
> instances of barbarity may easily be the outcome."
For his time, he was a remarkably thoughtful chap. Also :
"The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and
criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any
country. A calm and dispassionate recognition of the rights of the accused
against the state and even of convicted criminals against the state, a
constant heart-searching by all charged with the duty of punishment, a
desire and eagerness to rehabilitate in the world of industry of all those
who have paid their dues in the hard coinage of punishment, tireless efforts
towards the discovery of curative and regenerating processes and an
unfaltering faith that there is a treasure, if only you can find it in the
heart of every person - these are the symbols which in the treatment of
crime and criminals mark and measure the stored up strength of a nation, and
are the sign and proof of the living virtue in it."