"He is a product of war, a wounded and confused child," Mr. Baitz said.
The femmes fatales we meet in noir - Rita Hayworth in Gilda, Mary Astor in The Maltese Falcon, Ava Gardner in The Killers - were also a product of war.
In fact, modern welfare states, inadequate as they may be, are in no small part the product of war – that is, of governments' attempts to appease soldiers and their families.
Zainab Bangura, the UN's special representative on sexual violence in conflict, said conflict-related rape was no longer considered "a marginal issue, an inevitable by-product of war or mere collateral damage.
Many military professionals, meanwhile, describe crushing schedules with 10 or more patients a day, most struggling with devastating trauma or mutilated bodies that are the product of war and the highly advanced care that kept them alive.
Until western rulers realise that this kind of terrorism is the product of war and flourishes within it, and that ending the wars in the Middle East will be the only way to stop it, the people of Syria will continue to be caught in the crossfire.
Simply put, people who had fled a country because their village had been flattened would now get more help to go back and take up life where they had left off.In Iraq and Afghanistan a mass exodus was a by-product of war, and not the conscious or main intention of the country's leaders.
Systematic torture to make the opponent suffer, the mutilation of civilians, like cutting off ears, lips or genitals and the desecration of dead bodies are surprisingly common by-products of war and escalating violence, and can be found across different cultural and historical backgrounds.
This and other landmark cases (see, for example, Engle 2005) nevertheless helped transform sexual violence in conflict from an 'unfortunate but inevitable by-product of war' (Scully 2009) to a grave human rights violation and a part of war crimes and crimes against humanity, torture, and genocide (Alcorn 2014 to achieve a weaponised status (Leatherman 2011).
