Gen. Carlos Alberto Rhode, commander of the air force, was chastised recently when he said that "there were errors and horrors by both camps," government and guerrillas.
Most were brutal, even crazed, often driven to horrors by a just revenge or their own unflinching moral strictures (I explored this theme in my own novel, Hodd).
"Who are governments serving today and who creates them?" Hodges said the other day, during a break from his duties as the director of the graduate sculpture department at Yale. "We are complicit in all these horrors by supporting them".
It called on member states to "redouble and coordinate their efforts" to prevent further terrorist horrors by the group and "eradicate" its safe havens straddling parts of Iraq and Syria.
Mark Bridger has never disclosed what ordeal April was subjected to at Mount Pleasant - dubbed a house of horrors by the media - but Detective Superintendent Andy John, said the evidence pointed to unspeakable suffering for the schoolgirl.
The argument that modern life consists of a menu of horrors by which we are corrupted and to which we gradually become habituated is a founding idea of the critique of modernity — a tradition almost as old as modernity itself.
