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Foreign affairs: Skittles and the art of war

The conflict with Islam was never clear on whether it met the criteria for respectable warfare or criminal prosecution

Fri, 30 Sep 2016

Sun Tzu wrote how the supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. But who would have thought candy would prove the West’s victory in this so-called war?

“If I had a bowl of Skittles and told you three would kill you. Would you take a handful? That’s our Syrian problem,” the son

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