Nip Evil in the Bun

“We cannot allow evil to prepare the mass death of innocents,” Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said yesterday during a visit to the site of the 1942 Wannsee conference in Berlin. He also said that one lesson Israel drew from the Holocaust was that threats to its existence could not go unchallenged and thus must be suppressed.

Reminds me of the most famous quotation from Edmund Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

Update: Turns out the Burke quote may not be authentic.