perhaps it's time to ask, what was all that fighting, slaughter, maiming, torture, humiliation, frustration, enormous hurt, enormous destruction of lives about. Thirty eight years of not a moment's peace; of fear, anxiety, tormented psyches - what was that for?
Was all this a religious madness, a political madness or the extraordinary, vaulting ambition of land-grabbing thugs?
Who has won? I can see those who think themselves the losers which means I ought to be seeing a bunch of winners there as well but I can't.
What for the loss of blood? How long before the living blood rests?