He told us how they would interrogate prisoners by using the threat of a poisoned snake bite to make them talk. This war was an ugly business. War in modernity has no honour. It is a machine thing, even guerrilla war. It is a killing and maiming without honour.
Rhodesia, a thread: I had a teacher at school who fought in Rhodesia. He still limped from the shrapnel in his leg. He told us war stories. He told us how they tied prisoners to the front of jeeps and drove towards suspected minefields. Human mine detectors.
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Do not lionise this war. The honourable wars of the archaic past are long gone. The skirmishes for women and a little booty no more...now we kill with the machine and maim without much thought. Rhere is nothing human about our wars. This has been so for sometime.
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