"Give me leave to say, as my opinion, that my first wish is to see the plague of war banished from off the earth.
Discussing mankind's plague of war, with its child victims as a necessary byproduct, Haw agrees that it is nationalism that had got us into this mess.
Just as a reliable prognosis of a disease requires a sound diagnosis, so too a sensible solution to the plague of war and militarism in the Middle East requires an objective identification of the root causes of the continued cycle of violence and bloodshed.
The Soviet Union built entire cities devoted to developing germ weapons, employing tens of thousands of people and turning anthrax, smallpox and bubonic plague into weapons of war.
"This is a country where the government is absent in many areas, plagued by years of war and bad governance, where the economic tissue has been destroyed.
In a country plagued by decades of war and unrest, a comprehensive and effective prehospital and emergency care system is paramount to saving lives, meeting critical health care needs, and providing a reliable safety net for the population.
He has used the language of plague and war to describe how the residents of British towns feel about immigrants, even though this is broadly considered to be an unhelpful and cheap, populist way of discussing profound demographic change in the UK.
And as the United States military withdraws this year, Iraqis have begun to ask whether their state — divided, feeble and corrupt — can navigate the vote's results in a country still plagued by the miseries of war, the legacy of Mr. Hussein's rule and a calculus that celebrates the victor's claiming the spoils of the vanquished.
Bodies that were never claimed by their families – often those of beaten, starved and exploited inmates – would have ended up in the burial ground alongside rich and poor, old and young, victims of plague and war, from across London.
This always seemed to happen in times of war or plague or famine.
Or, if there was just one, he often couldn't enter Rome, for fear of war, riots, plague, or assassination.
