Pizzey's Perch

The writer John Stein­beck called war “a symp­tom of man’s fail­ure as a think­ing ani­mal.” Pruss­ian gen­er­al Carl von Clause­witz char­ac­terised it  as “the con­tin­u­a­tion of pol­i­tics by oth­er means.” The lat­est ver­sion is the tri­umph of hubris, ego and igno­rance of his­to­ry and culture.… Read the rest