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During the U.S.-Mexican war of 1846–1848 the uncivil treatment of Mexicans and Californios and the public conviction in the righteousness of the war are cited as examples of how Mexico was disrespected by Americans.
Hindu ethics say that the path to salvation has three principles: righteousness, prosperity honestly achieved, and, not least, pleasure.
The task was left to Bindusara’s heir Ashoka (269–232 b.c. ), admired by Indians as their greatest ruler, perhaps for his special combination of tough authoritarianism and a high sense of moral righteousness.
To oversee this mass conversion, Ashoka turned the Brahmanic concept of dharma (righteousness) into an instrument of public policy, enforced by the Officers of Righteousness he had appointed for this purpose.
And I suddenly thought, "Is this the man I want representing the righteousness of America in a land sacred to billions of Jews, Christians, and Moslems?"