We started this, Leo.
This isn't about Shareef.
You're right; it's not. It's about our allowing situations in these countries to develop in the first place.
I'm not gonna let you do this.
We choose the order and certainty of petty despots over the uncertainty and chaos of developing democracies.
Shareef ordered the assassination of women and children. He wasn't a nationalist or a fledgling Democrat. He was a cold-blooded murderer.
Six more American boys are dead.
And that doesn't make you angry?
[yelling] Of course that makes me angry! [pause] "The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral. Returning violence with violence only multiplies violence adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars."
Dr. King.
I'm part of that darkness now, Leo. When did that happen?
Dr. King wasn't wrong. He just didn't have your job.
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