THE TWO TRAGEDIES

THE TWO WARS IN THE MIDDLE EAST, In the Gulf and in the Lebanon, are both recognised tragedies not only or the countries immediately involved, but also for the region as a whole. Both have brought about the awful human suffering and wreaked the material and economic havoc that all wars create. But no two wars are quite the same, either in nature and character or in scale and extent, and the Gulf war and the conflict in the Lebanon have in common only the similarity of violence.