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Is this dementia, desperation, or Machiavellian mischief? It occurs to me that the course of the world is perhaps set in motion but idiocy so convoluted it is rendered complex.

— Imad Rahman The Brigadier-General Takes His Final Stand, by James Butt (2013)

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Does circumstance reveal character or create it?

The Brigadier-General Takes His Final Stand, by James Butt (2013)

Men like me, we are necessary because we unite those we recruit to keep us in power, and we unite those who have been recruited to put different versions of us in power. It is just like Woody Allen says, in a revolution oppressors become oppressed and vice versa.

The Brigadier-General Takes His Final Stand, by James Butt (2013)

Real refugees live in real refugee camps. Photo opportunities with celebrities call for movie sets. Army privates, starved for weeks and stuck in the stockade, are conscripted to act like refugees and thereafter either assassinated or promoted, depending on the things that these sorts of things usually depend on.

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