Later that night, at an outdoor rally under the neon lights of the NASCAR cafe in Myrtle Beach, he shouted: "We can eradicate evil.
"The idea," Smith contends, "that political or military action can be used to eradicate evil from the human landscape is closer to the utopian and idealistic visions of Marxism and the radical Enlightenment than anything found in the writings of Strauss".
He is richly dismissive, for instance, of the Bush administration's neo-conservatives - "Washington's new Jacobins", he calls them - who believe that it is possible to eradicate evil from the world.
Both the police and the clergy are wise when they seek not to eradicate evil but to encompass it.
OBAMA Why? BARTLET He's promised to eradicate evil and that was always on my "to do" list.
Ed Harris, as a Louisiana-born police detective with an elegant goatee and burning eyes, gives one of his most fervent performances — his cop is so determined to eradicate evil that he commits evil.
While we will never be able to eradicate evil or stop hurtful things from happening, we must do our part to mitigate or lessen the harm that bad online behaviors can cause.
"Justifiable" wars, with all the unfortunate "collateral damage" of incalculable property destruction and the deaths of innocent people, may often seem to be the last and necessary resort, yet wars and violence have never been sufficient to eradicate evil.
