Why do we call them civil wars? There is nothing civil about it.
The Latin term “bellum civile” was first used in the roman civil wars of the 1st century BC and it’s been adopted for other historical conflicts.
If you look at the pictures of slaughter and the mass graves coming out of
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Another Why?
Another “why” in my periodic questions about life.
We all know that in Syria the conflict creates nothing but misery.
If the Assad regime truly cared about its people then the cruelty of conflict would have ended a long time ago or not have esculated to the civilian population. If the rebel factions truly
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