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Why We Need More Leaders Like Vaclav Havel

June 6, 2008 - 12:40 am - by Bruce Bawer
Steven Brockerman
2008-06-07 05:13:45

Stunning anecdotes of personal courage; astonishing conclusions that undermine that courage. And both from the same person! Havel’s notion of sacrifice is old school, to be sure: liberty-or-death as noble sacrifice. It is, nonetheless, genuine sacrifice when expanded and re-applied to other things. Of course, much is the result of this writer’s interpretation and unquestioning worship of sacrifice.
To fight Islam we must…sacrifice. To fight disease, then, we must become ill.