There are no small acts of violence.

Derrick Crowe of Return Good for Evil has a splendid post up on the myth of redemptive violence. Applied quite stunningly to Iraq and Afghanistan. Read it.

"In [Walter] Wink’s view, every act of violence, no matter how well-intentioned, is an act of fundamental validation of and belief in this system, its spirit and the lie that gives rise to it: that violence saves."