The late polemicist Christopher Hitchens famous quipped, "Yes, I have free will; I have no choice but to have it." He was addressing the paradoxical nature of free will in that even if it were an illusion, and we could somehow figure that out, we would be forced to carry on as if it were real.
One of the many strange things to come out of the short war between Israel and Iran is the fact that many of our politicians seem to worship Jewish people.
"We liberated Europe from fascism, but they will never forgive us for it" is often attributed to Georgy Zhukov, the great Soviet general during the Great Patriotic War, or Second World War as we call it.