There, the contests and the camaraderie helped push back thoughts of bombs and battles, at least for an afternoon.
Because of the flying robots high above in the darkening sky, unseen but never far from people's minds, Saeed walked with a slight hunch, as though cringing at the thought of the bomb or missile that one of them might at any moment dispatch.
The thought of a bomb that may have been triggered by remote control only makes me want to stay away from crowds, big stadiums full of people, rock concerts and parades.
Of the bombing of villages.
And even Arab states who fear Iran shudder at the thought of America, or its ally Israel, bombing another Muslim country and the backlash that that could provoke.
Now it is Iraq's turn, and one can dwell on the thought of the Mother of All Bombs being wrestled and heaved to the door of a plane's cargo bay, and then shoved out to do its stuff on an ancient, rickety city like Baghdad, population five million.
Mr. Cohen has the sechel (a Yiddish word meaning wisdom), but China has the bomb and the Thought of Mao Zedong.
And though the thought of Iran's mullahs with a nuclear bomb is indeed scary, it is hard to get a country to drop a programme that it denies having.
With as little thought as possible after 9/11, the bombing of Afghanistan commences - War Machine fully, fully functional, sir!
I have heard people call for the death of whomever planted the bombs, and I know that the thought of harsh justice provides comfort to some.
