Comments on: And the handsome sleeping lieutenants were massacred https://www.isegoria.net/2025/12/and-the-handsome-sleeping-lieutenants-were-massacred/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:34:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: T. Beholder https://www.isegoria.net/2025/12/and-the-handsome-sleeping-lieutenants-were-massacred/comment-page-1/#comment-3760416 T. Beholder Sun, 07 Dec 2025 06:32:02 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=53738#comment-3760416 Alas, this tale only takes the second place, after “they envy our freedums!”.

Phileas Frogg says:

We step back in stupefaction, because we’ve conflated the Peace of Westphalia with Sacred Scripture, or the Natural Law,

And then someone have killed and buried the Peace of Westphalia.

]]> By: Phileas Frogg https://www.isegoria.net/2025/12/and-the-handsome-sleeping-lieutenants-were-massacred/comment-page-1/#comment-3760395 Phileas Frogg Wed, 03 Dec 2025 18:25:31 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=53738#comment-3760395 It is a pernicious delusion of the contemporary Western mind that war is the sole right and domain of the State, and in the absence of a State authority there can be no war. The Mohammedan lives under no such delusion.

We step back in stupefaction, because we’ve conflated the Peace of Westphalia with Sacred Scripture, or the Natural Law, and are shocked and paralyzed to discover they’re not the same thing.

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