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I was out of the country yesterday, and I don’t have my copy handy now. But somewhere Marcus Aurelius says, Either an all-seeing Providence, or iron destiny, or an uncontrollable storm. Whichever it is, why should you do anything other than what is right?

I believe in the first, but whichever way the world is, our course is clear: Tear down these people. Tear down their killers, their witchdoctors and their patrons. Tear them down to the ground. It will take a long time, decades. Spend as long as it takes.

Historian Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor of National Review and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute.
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