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If you really want to scare/depress yourself, check out the BBC TV movie Threads. It’s bleak as hell. Very good though.
Indeed - as Yes Prime Minister put it…
“Normally we partition the place. It’s what we did in Ireland, Cyprus, India and Palestine. It always worked.”
“Doesn’t partitioning always lead to civil war? It did in Ireland, Cyprus, India and Palestine.”
“Yes, but it kept them busy, and instead of fighting us they fought each other.”
Sadly, it seems unlikely - my concern is that right now it seems to be growing arms and legs, with various smaller disputes and conflicts all becoming intermingled. And given the second last point, that’s a pretty scary prospect.
It’s probably not unrelated to the fact that most of the people living in those countries happen to be Muslim.
Whereas in countries where a majority are Christians, conflicts tend to be fought mostly by… Christians. Eg Russia/Ukraine, many South American countries, even the events of the US Capitol on 6 Jan. Doubt there was a majority of Muslims “fighting like hell” that day. Not to mention both of the World Wars in the last century and a bit.
Meanwhile, there’s places like Myanmar where, I’d feel fairly safe in betting that the majority of combatants in recent conflicts are Buddhists. As were those in Cambodia in the 70s. You could also even double up and consider the Vietnam war where Buddists and Christians were the actors.
So maybe it’s just religion generally? Probably not though, since China’s population is majority atheist, but that didn’t help the students in Tiananmen Square any more than it helped Hong Kong.
The point is, humans in general have a seemingly neverending thirst for conflict, and not all of it can be lazily attributed to which religion they happen to be.
Perhaps right now there is more conflict in Islamic countries, but it wasn’t always so and it won’t always be so either. Snidely hinting that Islam is the problem is not helpful.
Probably lots of things - what did you have in mind?
Ok, so… (in no particular order)
Added 18 Jan:
Anything else? (Loads, obviously)
What a fucking mess :-(
Not necessarily - Kissinger died of heart failure.
Cool, looking forward to looking over the election results!
Good news, fingers crossed it continues to plummet.
In that scenario, the road was fine, it was the brakes that were broken :-)
And then they can do it again if they don’t get a solution they are satisfied with. This is a significant action by these doctors, the longest strike the NHS has ever had, and it comes on top of more than a year of on/off industrial action.
I mean, it’s pretty easy. You just say Eyjafjallajökull.
Even if nothing comes of it, even if no policy is changed, it’s still important for people to (peacefully) express their opposition to something they disagree with, rather than meekly accept whatever their government does.
This applies to any such protest, not just today’s.
It’s also important that they get out and vote for change when they have a chance.
Thankfully, in another 20 years they won’t be melting at all!
That’s actually a really good point about the staff and their freedom/confidence to solve problems on their own initiative. Hadn’t thought of that, but you’re spot on.
Also agree on delaying the plane, I meant to say that myself. Imagine rushing the guy off AND not helping him… unbelievable.
Going by other posts here, this appears not to be the case.