NEW YORK CITY — My thoughts have lately been turning to war, and war there is aplenty. In Iraq and Syria, the barbaric band of misanthropes calling itself the Islamic State holds on to a large swath of territory, beheading its captives and in the instance of the captured Jordanian pilot burning him alive. In Ukraine, Russian-backed separatists and government forces battle it out. And the Boko Haram is bedeviling northern Nigeria and the countries that border it.
My thoughts are especially drawn to seemingly endless armed conflicts, as the first week of February is the occasion for at least two …read more
Source: The Philippine Daily Inquirer
