With a nod to Clausewitz, sort of, the language of politics is also the language of war. Arguments promoting a certain philosophy can also justify (or condemn) military action and be another weapon on the battlefield. And so the first shots — er, sound bites — rang out Tuesday morning in the US, from entrenchments […]
Two years on nearly 93,000 people are dead in Syria, victims of the civil war there, victims of the Assad regime’s devastating military action against the Syrian rebels. 65oo of the dead in that partial list of casualties are, were, children; 1300 of those are, were, five years old or younger. That list, as compiled by […]