When the End of War Is the Beginning of War
03.21.2014 at 05:06am
When the End of War Is the Beginning of War by Alan Cowell, New York Times
… As European history showed after the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, terms of peace that offer no dignity to the defeated sow the seeds of future conflict. In this century – witness the revived bloodletting in Iraq – wars that end on ill-defined terms merely store up the tinder of future conflagration.
So what is to be made of Britain’s drawdown in lockstep with the United States’ from a war in Afghanistan whose aims have shifted inconclusively as lives have been lost? …
