In Sierra Leone, Britain achieved proof of concept, a test case exemplifying how war-termination and peace-enforcement can be successfully achieved. Sierra Leone had suffered over a decade of terrible trauma and pain at the hands of a wily, well-armed and entrenched group of rebels. Against all the odds, it has effectively been brought back into the community of peaceful nations.

In the telling of their story there is also the opportunity, indeed the need, to discuss the wider issues thrown up by this short chapter on the history of suffering in a country like Sierra Leone. That discussion in part concerns our response to the demands of international peacekeeping in strife-torn regions across Africa and in the wider, conflict-torn world.

We need to be happy in this wonderland without once being merely comfortable.

The economics of a global economy demand a change in the way we think of managing the resources of the very globe this economy rests upon.

The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is the head that splits.

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for the kid who's family was hurt or injured during this war, the concepts of democracy, WMD's etc are far to high-minded, all he/she knows is death has rained down in a greater way since the USA has been in Iraq than before