Judgement Defeats Us?

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In the 1979 Vietnam War movie Apocalypse Now, Colonel Kurtz went rogue and then used barbaric methods to defeat the enemy. The U.S. military turned a blind eye because Kurtz was successful. Then Kurtz leaked photographs of his atrocities to the international media. The “civilized world” couldn’t stomach what they saw and wanted Kurtz stopped.

The U.S. military declared Kurtz insane and dispatched an assassin to kill him…