There is always reconciliation with criminals and enemies, always amnesties, always pardons, always Reconstruction, always traitors who needed killing who dodge the bullets and nooses they so richly deserve. Happens after every civil war, Subotai. Has to happen, or the killing never ends.

Completely agreed. Reconciliation has to happen. The key though is that it has to happen after the victory is clear an the criminals and traitors know without a doubt that they lost. The ones who think maybe they could still win, or could give it another try in a few years, those can’t have any slack.

An ideology needs to be destroyed and the ability to profit from that ideology must come to an end. Whether Chris Dodd, Barney Frank and Franklin Raines ever see the inside of a jail cell is less important than ending the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac cronyism for good. If sending one of those scoundrels to prison and giving the other two a pass will accomplish that, well, that’s okay.

Speaking of criminals is apt, we are dealing with a certain type of crime. And the best way to reduce crime, especially when it has become widespread, isn’t necessarily to imprision all the criminals, even if they all deserve it. The best way to reduce crime is to imprision – serioulsy with no slaps on the wrist – enough high profile criminals that the rest decide a sudden career change is in their best interests.

At any rate, talking about reconciliation, reconstruction, or jail time is a bit premature. We have to win the war first. Right now when Obama, Dodd, Pelosi, Holder et al are in positions to threaten our ruin it’s hard to feel magnanimous. If, God willing, a few years from now they are out of office and powerless, it will be easier to find our better angels.