 | O. C. McSwite - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 326 pages
...of what is energizing this renewed prejudice. As one observer of this scene put the problem, "What gives today's civil wars a new and terrifying slant...either side, that they are wars about nothing at all [italics in original]" (Enzensberger, 1994, p. 8). The interesting thing about this comment is that... | |
 | Henrik Vigh - Family & Relationships - 2006 - 274 pages
...Malone 2000; Collier 2000); or even, as Enzensberger would have us believe, over nothing at all: 'What gives today's civil wars a new and terrifying slant...either side, that they are wars about nothing at all ... there is no longer any need to legitimise your actions. Violence has been freed from ideology'... | |
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What gives today's civil wars a new and terrifying slant is the fact that they are waged without stakes on either side, that they are wars about nothing at all ... there is no longer any need to legitimise your actions. 