What causes wars
THE INVASION of Iraq is only the latest in a line of “interventions” by the United States. Before Iraq were the wars in Afghanistan and the Balkans. And before those many can remember Somalia and the 1991 Gulf War. While America was waging these wars, there were also numerous other bloody conflicts raging around the world-in Algeria, Angola, Congo, Somalia, Rwanda, Chechnya, Azerbaijan and many other places. Indeed, when one looks back over the 20th century the world appears to have been more or less continuously at war. The picture is dominated by the First and Second World Wars, which […]