Today we hear a lot about those who have had what's often called Road to Damascus experiences on every issue from guns and same-sex marriage to the sanctity-of-life and taxes.

James Howden dropped into an upholstered wing chair. “They certainly did us brown last night,” he remarked. “You’d think if they are making a switch, being considerate and so on, they’d be a bit more subtle.”

I have no modern dictionnary on hand. But I used to understand ethnocide as the volontary destruction of a culture.

The rude fact which editors forbear to mention (though they hint at it) is this: we have made libraryfuls of plans for destroying war before we know what war is.