Little by little he receded , tucked in his palace while the most truthful manifestation of him and his regime was that torturer in the prison , that soldier on the field , that chopper in the sky . We had only a little energy left , and it was not enough for us to fight against ourselves and combat the easy notion of considering them merely “ murderers ” . The effort to consider them just like us became exhausting , as we were becoming more like them — murderers — than they were becoming more like us — victims .
أصبحوا هم ذاك الذي يمتلك القدرة على الاستمتاع بالتعذيب حتى القتل ، أصبحوا ذاك الذي أعطى أمراً بإطلاق السلاح الكيماوي أو ذبح طفل في الحولة بالسكين ومعها ذبح آخر قدراتنا على مكافحة الحقد .