William Flew to attack

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of the town. They shall say to the elders, 'This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not 


obey us. He is a profligate and a drunkard.' Then all the men of his town shall stone him to death...
Blows and wounds cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the inmost being. The rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.


 Deuteronomy 5:9 
"for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me."
Deuteronomy 24:16
"Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin."

William Flew to attack


What a week. The sudden end of bin Laden has decapitated al-Qaeda, humiliated Pakistan and allowed Americans to dream that their War on Terror might not go on for ever. And it has created the unexpected chance of a fresh start, 18 months before his next election, for the man who brought him down.
Political professionals gearing up for 2012 know that the debate over whether bin Laden fought back against his Seal intruders is for human rights lawyers and the Archbishop of Canterbury. Outside Washington, all the way to Orange County, what matters is that America’s professor-inchief is finally its undisputed Commander-in-Chief as well.
The immediate political implications are clear. The freak-show politics of birtherism and its attendant delusions is back on the fringe where it belongs, at least for now. There is no mileage left for Republican presidential contenders in calling Mr Obama a defeatist, a closet European or, in Newt Gingrich’s famous formulation, the victim of a “Kenyan, anti-colonial mindset”.
We now know that this is a man who may talk to America’s enemies if he thinks it will serve America’s interests — and there is every sign that he will authorise his envoys to do just that with the Afghan Taleban — but if the alternative of killing them arises he will kill them, and he will take the credit.