AMERICAN President Barack Obama, at a recent news conference on the MiddleEast,udwanted the US to "startudby listening!" This was a departure from the previous US administration which Obama admitted would "start byuddictating!"udThere is no better time to start listening than now when the guns are largely silent on all fronts although theirudimpact remains deafening given the horrific consequences.udThis is the result of a blatantly asymmetric war that is causing pain and suffering to the majority who areuddefenceless. To be sure, it is a coward's war, an uncivilised way of settling ageolduddifferences.udAs US commander General David Petraeus once admitted, even the coalition of the willing (in Iraq) "could notudkill its way out of the problems of insurgency and civil strife".
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