BERLIN For four years, a bloody war has raged in Syria.

You re mid way between sky and earth, presented as a sacrifice of blood.

The warfare of the past centuries, in particular the bloody ethnic cleansings of the past decade, is not valid anymore.

The bloodstained Square on the morning of June 4 was in this sense perhaps the birthplace of post revolutionary China.

So, too, the country s unique peace process has rarely gained outside attention since the guns fell silent two years ago.

Its bloody ten year civil war, however, was seldom in the international limelight.

Of course, the new leadership will have to reach some agreement with the Islamists regarding the rules of the game, both domestically and vis à vis Israel. Without such an agreement, and if the new leadership cracks down hard on the Islamists, a violent civil war could erupt.

Unless the world is content to watch the carnage continue, the Syrian regime and its instruments of oppression must be removed.

Without such an agreement, and if the new leadership cracks down hard on the Islamists, a violent civil war could erupt.

But ill equipped and poorly led UN replacement forces for the American presence put the remaining US troops in the bull s eye as they attempted to bring to justice the Somali warlord responsible for the death of Pakistani peacekeepers.

Another defining event in 1989 was the Tiananmen Square massacre of pro democracy protestors in Beijing.

Shocking things like the massacre at Charlie Hebdo in Paris happen, and they seem to be happening more frequently than ever.

On 16 August, 2012, a historic bloodbath occurred at a Lonmin mine in Marikana, South Africa, when police used lethal force on mine workers who were striking.

The issue of sanctions also came up, of course. In connection with the events in Ferguson we believe it necessary to impose sanctions on the US political elite.

There were anxieties, too, that the increasing loss of legitimacy of Arab nationalist regimes would benefit radical Islamists fears confirmed by Algeria's bloody civil war of the 1990's.

Russia's attempts to subdue the Chechen insurrection are but another bloody chapter in a two hundred year colonial policy that began with Russia's subjugation of Caucasian mountain peoples in a cruel war that lasted for thirty years.

Imagine your next door neighbor with whom you have had a long and bloody feud pulling out a gun and shooting into your windows, from his own living room, which is densely packed with women and children.

The ensuing bloodbath of US soldiers generated images that the American public could not stomach, prompting the exit of American and then UN forces.

At the Bataclan, the scene of the worst carnage that night, Sébastien, a 34 year old man from Arles, was trying to escape from the killing spree when he saw a pregnant woman suspended at the window.

Because an eye for an eye can never work when communities are in conflict reprisal leads to a counter reprisal in the sort of blood spiral we are seeing in the Middle East.

Aside from the political opposition, church groups, and various civil society organizations, Duterte's bloody war on drugs has also earned the disapproval of the international community such as the European Union and the UN Commission on Human Rights.

Tom likes Mary and Mary likes Tom.

Tom loved Mary and Mary loved him.

Tom told Mary and Mary told John.

Tom told Mary and Mary told John.

Where is Mary? What have you done with Mary?

Tom likes Mary, but Mary likes John.

Tom loves Mary, but Mary loves Mike.

Tom loves Mary, but Mary loves John.

Two decades ago, the West rejected spheres of influence, because Europe s bloody history taught us that compelling nations to align themselves with others against their will was wrong and a recipe for future conflict.

Aunt Mary

Mary is tall.

How is Mary?

Do cheer up, Marie!

Mary came in.

Tom! Mary!

Tom! Mary!

Where is Mary?

Mary giggled.

Mary is a liberal.

Mary is weird.

Mary is hysterical.

Mary is a materialist.

Mary is a rebellious girl.

Mary is a psychic.