Routine rockets

Missiles are a really poor way of sending messages to your enemies. Traditional diplomacy is a lot better.
The players in the Middle East are all way past trigger happy, writes Gwynne Dyer.

Not all that long ago, attacking another country’s territory was still seen as a big deal. It was, in legal terms, an ‘act of war,' liable to have unpleasant and potentially unlimited consequences including full-scale war. Very powerful countries occasionally made small,...

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