Word: saviors
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...Passion. Jesus is lashed, kicked and spat on a few clumsy times, then totes his cross up a deserted city street. He dies in close-up, and the camera pulls back to reveal a modern American city (L.A.? Nashville?) - a strange but potent payoff, indicating that the Savior died not only for the sins committed up to His time but for the ones we are still committing...
...scourging lasts only eight or nine lashes, but they snap and sting; the soldiers wind up for their work like Olympic discus throwers. At Jesus' death there's no earthquake, only rain. Zeffirelli suggests that the response to a Savior's death would be the tears of angel, not the rumblings of subterranean spirits...
...even as a Frenchman, I totally agree with Krauthammer's views. I would add that not just Europe but also the U.S. and all other countries have always lived by Lord Palmerston's axiom. There is no such thing as friendship between nations, nor has there ever been a savior for the common good. In international relations, only grim self-interest rules, converging or conflicting, depending on the time and place. Nicolas Ziener Grenoble, France...
...sure you made your choice with the best intentions. I am worried, however, that it reflects a country too much in love with its own military might. The U.S.'s armed forces are an extension of American foreign policy, not the savior of the world. To start thinking of service members as infallible crusaders for freedom is delusional and dangerous to the rest of the world. Let's remember what our military really is: a group of Americans sworn to defend the freedom of the U.S. and its Constitution. They are not the U.N.'s Blue Helmets, dedicated to keeping...
...week before Christmas, murders in Los Angeles are down 22% from the previous year, and the man whose crime-busting tactics cut New York City's homicide rate almost a decade ago, landing him on the cover of this magazine, is once again being hailed as a savior...