Peace Through Carnage

Decades back, I watched a series about a Zulu king on Nashville Public Television. One statement by this warrior leader stuck with me. He reputedly said, "never leave an enemy behind alive". Israel never tried to implement this bloody notion in their war of defense in Gaza, but Trump has endorsed it in a foreign policy move nobody saw coming. The Romans put this strategy into effect against Carthage, and Carthage has not made trouble in a couple of thousand years.