Reply #15: You Know, Mr. Gyre

[The Magistrate]

It really is a stretch to mouth pious complaints over the dispatch of Sheik Yassin to the Paradise he craved so long, and facilitated so many others' early arrival at: as the leader of an armed militia body, he fits any sensible definition of a leading combatant; there have been infirm genmerals before this....

Of course, how mention of a paroled prisoner's violation of the conditions of that grace worked its way around to such statements must remain a mystery for the ages, eh?

"Don't do the crime if you can't do the time."