#219 catch-22

catch-22- a situation in which a person is frustrated by a parasoxical rule or set of circumstances that preclude any attempt to escape from them; a situation in which an move that a person can make will lead to trouble

- from the title of the J. Heller novel, 1961

Unfortunately the catch -22 of Western democracy attached to civil liberty and decency is a reluctance to face up to unpalatable confrontation which would lead to the temporary chaos and inhumanity of war.

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