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Neither the Christians nor their foes are backing away from the prospect Of more slaughter. "As long as the Syrians are in Lebanon, there is no peace," warned Chamoun last week. Equally adamant was Syrian President Hafez Assad, who insisted that his troops had opened fire on the Christians in order to "establish the authority of the Sarkis government." But when the Lebanese President proposed that a buffer force of Lebanese soldiers be deployed between the Christians and Syrians, Assad had a brusque reply: "There is no Lebanese army, and what there is represents the Christians." After Sarkis completed...
...Britain must try to halt the Rhodesian slaughter...
Thus, in order to deprive the National Liberation Front of its rural base, Huntington is arguing that the U.S. must make the Vietnamese countryside uninhabitable by reducing it to embers and rubble. "Urbanization and modernization" meant napalm and fragmentation bombs, plague-ridden, overcrowded cities, and the slaughter of hundreds of thousands...
...meantime, the slaughter only grew worse. Whites turned their farmhouses into fortresses; blacks who cooperated with the settlers lived in terror of Mau Mau revenge. In the end, only 32 white civilians and 167 members of the security forces were killed by the Mau Mau during the seven-year emergency. But 11,503 guerrillas lost their lives, as did 1,819 Africans who remained loyal to the colonial government...
World War I virtually wiped out a generation of British males. The slaughter in the trenches claimed three-quarters of a million young Englishmen and helped produce the "spinster bulge" of the '20s and '30s, when Britain had a surplus of nearly 2 million women, most of whom were never able to marry...