Two headlines - both equally belligerent and spewing fire — confronted me this morning. “Trump threatens Iran with consequences ‘at a level never seen before’ and “Iran launches ‘most intense’ barrage of missiles since start of conflict”. My initial response to them was one of utter disbelief, which then gave way to revulsion at the scale of animosity human beings are capable of directing at one another. My logical brain split into scraps of queries to which I may not have immediate solutions, just as many other existential dilemmas do not, but it was important to raise them so we know from where this quenchless thirst for blood arises.

Have you noticed how a war is now not called a war, per se? It goes by phrases such as strategic strikes, combat operations, special military operations, and is often explained as pre-emptive action taken to install peace. It’s all for the sake of eventual amity, the warmongers disguised as peacekeepers say, making........

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