Well, First Of All, No

All Sides In A Trial Want To Hide At Least Some Of The Truth.

Good Character Consists Of Recognizing The Selfishness That Inheres In Each Of Us And Trying To Balance It Against The Altruism To Which We Should All Aspire. It Is A Difficult Balance To Strike, But No Definition Of Goodness Can Be Complete Without It.

The Law Is Agnostic About Truth.

But The United States Is Neither A Christian Nation Nor The Exclusive Home Of Any Particular Religious Group. Non-christians Are Not Guests. We Are As Much Hosts As Any Mayflower-descendant Protestant. It Is Our Home As Well As Theirs. And In A Home With So Many Owners, There Can Be No Official Sectarian Prayer. That Is What The First Amendment Is All About, And The First Act By The New Administration Was In Defiance Of Our Constitution.

The Threat Of Mutually Assured Destruction Worked For The United States During The Cold War Because It Had Proved Its Willingness To Drop Nuclear Bombs On Enemy Cities At The End Of World War Ii. It Might Work Less Well For Israel, Because The Israeli Air Force Has Never Deliberately Targeted A Large Civilian Population Center, And Its Leaders Have Said Its Morality Would Not Permit It Do So.