With his debut novel, Phil Klay lays out our country's new way of waging war, without clear beginnings, middles or ends and without clear moral goods and evils.

“Lebanon cannot be left prey to the course of events or those who pursue their own unscrupulous interests,” Pope Francis said on the day of prayer and reflection for peace in Lebanon.

The United States has dithered on establishing any policy to help bring an end to a conflict now in its eighth decade.

“No one is safe from their attacks. Anyone they are suspicious of, anyone they think are against them, they will arrest, they will torture and some of them are even shot to death.”

Sister Nu Tawng describes a nation living in fear of its own government, where arrest may come at any time or for any reason.

“Violence is also in the language, in the political decisions, in the conditions of life under which the Gaza population has been living many years.”