A line two kilometers long stretches from a gas station in a neighborhood of Damascus to the last car waiting to fill up. The driver at the end is dozing at the wheel while his family sleeps in the back. It may take a day to get to the pumps. And hence, his dilemma: lock the car and go home, leaving someone to guard it, and come back the next day, or stick out the wait and risk the pump running dry or...
- By christoph
- 08 Feb 2013
- 10:48AM
As marxist politologist Georg Fülberth wrote at the time when I was still studying in Marburg, war is not only a humanitarian catastrophe, but also an economical one. But hey, who on earth would listen to marxists nowadays? The religious fanatics? Or the nationalist ones? The first ones would kill each others in order to defend the pleasure of hitting their heads against the soil five times a day, and the second ones will continue tol sacrifice their sons if it allows them to occupy some square meters of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
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