The war we’re in, like it or not

I’m very far from being a fan of the late Leon Trotsky (1879-1940).  But he knew what evils humans were capable of committing — he himself committed many of them, until the late Josef Stalin, his erstwhile comrade, permanently interrupted his murderous revolutionary career by means of an agent with an icepick in Mexico City — and he was, in his lethal and conspiratorial way, a political realist.

With al-Qa‘ida and the boundlessly depraved “Islamic State” in view, I thought of this ominous but potentially helpful comment:

“You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.”  (Leon Trotsky)