Sites Holmquist trys, and often fails, to go no more than a couple of days without visiting (some of which Holmquist regularly swipes links from without attribution)
In a piece from Monday's Christian Science Monitor, "Logic behind W. Africa's 'senseless' violence?", Brendan O'Neill attempts to find some "rational" reasons for the conflicts of West Africa. This is a valuable service, but it is notable that O'Neill doesn't make the point that what we are presently seeing in that part of the world has gone on in every other part of the human world at some point in time and that even the "civilized" world occasionally appears guilty in the present tense of similar actions, at least in kind. (Such a comparison is problematic because it can be used as an excuse to ignore the specifics of the conflict and say they are just the "same" so the comparison only should be used in terms of the level of barbarism.) posted by micah holmquist at 8/13/2003 09:38:00 AM
