By Larry Klayman
Newsmax
November 27, 2017
With news this Thanksgiving holiday weekend that Rt. General Mike Flynn is now cooperating with Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his Trump-hating leftist prosecutorial staff, and with renewed claims by the president’s lawyers attempting, without any known basis, to claim that all is well in the land as concerns their client, one has to do more than wonder what these lawyers are smoking.
As a French literature major at Duke University, one of the books which greatly shaped my view of life was Voltaire’s “Candide.” In this classic novel, Candide travels throughout South America and experiences one personal tragedy after another. Despite his plight, Candide, the student of the fictitious “great philosopher” Dr. Pangloss, is taught that “all is for the best.” Of course, Voltaire, the first existentialist, mocks Candide and at the end of the work has him dedicate his life to not trying to make sense of the world, but simply “cultivating his own garden” — meaning that one has to give his own meaning to life.