The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Tuesday July 19th, 2022
Customary Barbarity: Britain’s SAS in Afghanistan by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
The insistence that there is a noble way of fighting war, one less bloody and brutal, has always been the hallmark of forces self-described as civilised. Restraint characterises their behaviour; codes of laws follow in their wake, rather than genocidal impulses. Killing, in short, is a highly regulated, disciplined affair.
The failed wars and efforts of foreign powers in Afghanistan have destroyed this conceit. Lengthy engagements, often using special forces operating in hostile terrain, have been marked by vicious encounters and hostile retribution. Australia’s Special Air Services supplied a very conspicuous example. The 2020 report by New South Wales Court of Appeal Justice Paul Brereton on the alleged murders of Afghan non-combatants was an ice bath for moralists claiming they were fighting the good fight.
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Fade #poem by Jan Sand
“A fleck of rust, a speck of dust,
A sense that “must” no more demands
Positions clear where one stands.
Age can fade decisions made,
Trade what once delayed for time.
Arrangements slip, no longer match
Where they should catch.
Disintegrate,
Cease to define chaos or design.”
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Ephemera #64 #Cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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