 By Ernest A. Canning on 8/6/2010, 8:06am PT    Guest blogged by
Ernest A. Canning       Slippery Slope Leading to Total
Obliteration of Our Founding Principles  "Every civilization
finds its necessary to negotiate compromises with its own
values." --- Golda Meir as portrayed by Lynn Cohen in Steven
Spielberg's Academy nominated "Best Picture" Munich. (See
trailer below)  Although it was based on an actual event ---
Operation Wrath of God in which the Israeli Mossad engaged in
targeting killings of suspected members of Black September as a
means to avenge the murder of Israeli athletes during the 1972
Olympics, eventually killing an innocent waiter in Norway ---
Munich was a work of historical fiction. Thus, it is not
entirely clear that Meir actually said that it is necessary to
compromise a civilization's values.  But, over the course of a
film in which the protagonist, Mossad assassin Avner Kaufman
(played by Eric Bana) undergoes a moral transformation as doubts
as to the guilt of his targets lead to depre