Out of war comes the impoverishment of millions of people crippled, maimed and tormented for the rest of their lives. I have struggled for the last several weeks to comprehend some rationale for NATO's war in Serbia. My conclusion is, it is Fascism revisited. War is the worst catastrophe of the human race. In war, everyone is expendable except the leading generals and politicians.
War is always an atrocity.
History is full of these integral losses. In the Boer War, the English set up concentration camps for the Boer women and children to let them die of plague, and lack of food and sustenance. In the Italian campaign for the colonization of North Africa, General Grazioni set up huge fences in Africa against which he drove the native peoples to slaughter them. In the Spanish Civil War, Hitler and Mussolini tried out their new weapons at Guronica devastating a whole city as a prelude to that monster Franco. We 'll look after ourselves.