David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

a slice of pizza and it was his third
strike,” he went on, “that does more to
stop crime than anything else in the
state.”
The British acted from the same
principle in the early days of the
Troubles. People cannot be allowed to
make bombs and harbor automatic
weapons and shoot one another in broad
daylight. No civil society can survive
under those circumstances. General
Freeland had every right to get tough
with thugs and gunmen.
What Freeland did not understand,
however, was the same thing that
Reynolds did not understand: there
comes a point where the best-intentioned