Now for the next month all we’ll be seeing in the media is football...and, I’m sorry to say, the usual killing. At least we will not have to see or hear the former vice president of FIFA.
Other local politicians will undoubtedly make up for it. Certainly there will be gun talk about the “dogs of war!” One wonders if the public and the PM fully understand the meaning of that shocking phrase, which gives me the shimmies.
Despite what Fox and CNN show, war is not fun, you know. It’s “the old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est Pro patria mori.” My mother in-law, who lived through the brutal German invasion and occupation of Yugoslavia in World War II, where 17,000 civilians were killed in the first 24 hours, would still shudder when recounting her stories of that time. “Collateral damage,” that obscene American media phrase, is very real to some. There will also be little time to contemplate the almost equally shocking news coming from the Chief Education Officer, that 30 to 40 per cent of secondary school students are “being left behind” in the education system.
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