“Evil can’t win, can it?”

From the New York Times (may require registration) following the suicide bombings of February 10 and 11 in Iraq that killed more than 100 people:

So far more than 300 policemen have been killed, along with scores of other security troops.

Jassim Tahir, a traffic police supervisor, acknowledged his job was like “a dance with death.”

“But I can’t quit,” Mr. Tahir said. “Evil can’t win, can it?”

Let us hope not. And let us salute Mr. Tahir and others like him who are working to defeat evil.