of elephants and men

[jamesd at echeque.com]

The violence of leftists is continually and rapidly escalating.  War 
approaches.

The only question is:  Do they wipe themselves out after killing a few 
million or so, as in Khmer Rouge Cambodia and Szechuan province, or does 
someone seize absolute power like Stalin, Sulla, or Cromwell, and put a 
stop to it.

Sulla was a rightist, Cromwell a moderate and reasonable leftist, Stalin 
a relatively sane radical leftist, but they all did a job that had to be 
done, and which was not done in Cambodia.