n.i.m.b.u.s.

after the war

what would have happened,
if Hitler had won the War?

why, Columbus and the
Conquistadors, would've slaughtered
nearly all of the Americas,
we would've dropped atomic bombs,
on a two cities,
full of civilians,

and we'd sometimes wistfully remember,
the undeniable evil,
that transpired.

we'd learn our lesson,
without getting caught up in the past,
and we would never let such acts
of depravity
ever
happen
again.

Arab-Israeli War, Palestine War, Indonesian War of Independence, Malayan Emergency, Korean War, No Gun Ri massacre, Seoul National University Hospital Massacre, Chaplain-Medic massacre, Hill 303 massacre, Bodo League massacre, Goyang Geumjeong Cave Massacre, Sancheong-Hamyang massacre, Ganghwa massacre, Mau Mau uprising, The Chuka Massacre, The Hola massacre, The Lari massacre, Algerian War, Vietnam War, My Lai Massacre, Massacre at Huế, Đắk Sơn massacre, The Troubles, Bangladesh War, Bangladesh genocide, Killing of Bengli intellectuals, Bihari and pro-Pakistanis massacre in Bangladesh, Cambodian civil war, Indonesian Invasion of East Timor, Lebanese Civil War, Black Saturday (1975), Karantina massacre, Tel al-Zaatar massacre, Beirut barracks bombing, October 13 massacre, Civil war in Afghanistan, Executions and torture after fall of Mazar-i-Sharif, Taliban assassination of Iranian diplomats, Murder of Ahmed Shah Massoud, Atrocities against Taliban prisoners of war, Kandahar massacre, Maywand District murders, 2011 Helmand province incident, Iran - Iraq War, Al-Anfal Campaign, Halabja poison gas attack, Frans van Anraat war crime, Usage of child soldiers in suicide missions (during Iran-Iraq war), Ugandan conflict, Yugoslav wars, Croatian War of Independence, Battle of Vukovar, Ovčara massacre, Stajićevo camp, Morinj camp, Sremska Mitrovica camp, Velepromet camp, Knin camp, Dalj killing. Dalj massacre, Široka Kula massacre, Baćin massacre, Saborsko massacre, Erdut massacre, Škabrnja massacre, Siege of Dubrovnik, Voćin massacre, Bruška massacre, Zagreb rocket attack, Ethnic cleansing in Serb Krajina, Croatian War of Independence, Lora prison camp, Croatian internment camp for Serb soldiers and civilians, Gospić massacre, Operation Otkos, Miljevci plateau incident, Battle for Maslenica Bridge, Mirlovic Polje incident, Operation Medak Pocket, Operation Flash, Operation Storm, Bosnian War, Srebrenica Massacre, Prijedor massacre, Višegrad massacre, Foča massacres, Markale massacre, Siege of Sarajevo, Siege of Bihać, Tuzla massacre, Korićani Cliffs massacre, Ahatovići massacre, Paklenik Massacre, Bosanska Jagodina massacre, Bosnian War, Ahmići massacre, Stupni Do massacre, Lašva Valley ethnic cleansing, Bosnian War, Massacre in Grabovica, Kosovo War, Račak massacre, Izbica massacre, Suva Reka massacre, Ćuška massacre, Massacre at Velika Kruša, Podujevo massacre, Lapušnik prison camp, Klečka killings, Lake Radonjić massacre, Staro Gračko massacre, Liberia / Sierra Leone conflict, Invasion of Kuwait, Algerian Civil War, Russia-Chechnya Wars, Second Congo War, Iraq War, Blackwater Baghdad; physical, psychological, sexual abuse, torture, rape, sodomy, homicide of prisoners held in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq (Baghdad Correctional Facility); al-Askari Mosque bombing. Iraq War insurgent attacks, List of suicide bombings in Iraq , Lebanon War, Darfur conflict, Civil war in Chad, Gaza War, Sri Lankan Civil War, Syrian civil war, Civil uprising phase of the Syrian Civil War, Ghouta chemical attack, Douma market massacre, ISIL beheading incidents, Chemical attacks on YPG, Persecution of Yazidis by ISIL -- some of the war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes against peace that have transpired between 1948 and 2016

it's a good thing we got our finally got our act together, after the War.

truly, these are peaceful times,
for some.