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The real war

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Keith Teare
May 03, 2016
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From the Guardian in the UK. One of the best anti-war pieces from a journalist.

Mesopotamia. Babylon. The Tigris and Euphrates



How many children, in how many classrooms, over how many centuries, have hang-glided through the past, transported on the wings of these words? And now the bombs are falling, incinerating and humiliating that ancient civilisation


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