I tire of people writing on social media regurgitating the things they have read from other social media and seeing so few quoting an historian, or a journal or a law book. They make claims about war that are untrue, they make claims about apartheid that don’t hold water, about rights that don’t exist in…
Tag: Sudan
The Sun is Also Shining
There are so many wars going on takes one dizzy. The web of lies on the Internet, the cultural war the Republicans in America are waging on art – I am sure book burnings have been happening at private parties – the new trade war between America and the the rest of the world, the…
The Quality of Mercy
There is a cadence in war where each side wants absolute victory. In the past this had led to such things as the utter destruction of Hittite cities and the seeding of the land in and around Carthage with salt to the complete victory doctrine of World War 2 against the Nazis. Against this war…
Perhaps More Thought
should be given to human beings in war. There are those who thrive on it and enjoy battle. The British army says after a conflict there is always a higher than usual retirement of personnel which has always been the case. Those who know what war looks like never want to experience it again. In…
Sudan
Millions are starving and the situation is gearing up to be the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today. Access to get aid into the war torn regions is impossible at times and there is no end to the warring between the parties. Hundreds are displaced (5.8 million so far) and hundreds of villages have…
Interesting
Facebook and to some extent LinkedIn has been awash for five months with the Gaza war. They filled posts with massive generalisations and invective aimed at the Israelis. No words have been aimed at the hatred of Hamas or the indifference of Egypt both of whom have it in their power to end the war…
Invested in Fantasy
The world is on the brink of a new European war with Russia as the main enemy funded and supplied by China and India who are deeply nationalistic in this generation. There is a war in the Middle East, continued fighting in Sudan worries in the Congo and we are about the see if the…