An elusive dragon hiding somewhere, exhaling fire. Every time and everywhere the dragon blew out fire, people ran to their arms and started fighting. The graphic scenes of fighters from both sides rejoicing and shouting “Allahu Akbar” in seeing the dismembered and mutilated bodies of their adversaries tell a story that is deep and beyond the power of the gun. It goes beyond any stretch of the imagination to think of stray dogs devouring human bodies on the streets of a capital city. Any firefighting effort not targeting the fire base will not extinguish the fire. You ought to have targeted not the burning flames, but the ignition faculties built into the source of the flame. Devil, Sheitan, Iblis, or Djinn, is a fallen angel whom Almighty God cast to earth when Angels prostrated in obedience, and the Devil declined in arrogance. Devil vowed before God to derail humankind through temptation and apostasy. Devil uses the power of waswaas (hypnotic seduction) to entice humans to evil. Leaders who preach virtue and practice vice are shadows of the Devil on Earth. A deep wound had been hastily stitched without proper dressing, leaving the infection to spread while the patient kept hiding the pain and smiling in front of cameras. It was a matter of time before the wound exploded, throwing the serous fluid into the open air. The next regional conflicts are predicted to be primarily driven by disputes around natural resources, including water. The precursor of such conflicts is evidenced in the dispute between Ethiopia and Egypt following the construction of the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. African countries have more pressing priorities and challenges and, therefore, do not possess the financial resources to compete with giants such as China, Singapore, and Thailand. A country can sell gold to generate foreign exchange reserves to support current expenditure or keep it to bolster its gold reserves for future expenditure. Most countries stock gold to bolster their reserves. Selling gold to support imports is acceptable, but smuggling gold is a tax imposed on future generations. The inhabitants of this land … have historically been stereotyped, discriminatorily, as simple and complaisant. I assess that those people had limited options in their underdeveloped areas. Thus, they were confined to involuntary unemployment, marginal labor, and futile handiwork. Long-term deprivation creates an insatiable avidity that pushes a person to excessive intake or over-possession. The Roman Republic of the 2nd Century BC practiced a form of capital punishment known as Damnatio ad bestias or condemnation to beasts, where sentenced persons—usually criminals and runaway slaves—were thrown to hungry lions to devour them to the bone while crowds were watching ecstatically. Like a ravenous beast overeats when fed, an extremely deprived person over-possesses when given a chance to possess, and a destitute person over-exposes their wealth when they get rich. Leaders who experience poverty in their childhood grow in violence. They not only over-enrich themselves when offered a chance but exercise repression over their subjects to compensate for what they experienced or missed in childhood. Integrity is an absolute human value. If you have integrity, you have integrity. If you don’t have it, you cannot hide behind religion. What’s musclism-by-men? It’s an inclination to use muscle power or physical appearance to attract attention, win an argument, or prevail over a love contest. By the time the aircraft touched on landing and while taxing to park, a passenger had already had cabin bags on the lap, opened a cell phone, and made phone calls with a partner, taxi driver, and friend. Orderliness begins with simple unnoticed manners such as respecting the service line, valuing the time of fellow citizens, and refraining from littering the streets. These trivial manners develop into the collective character of a valued citizen. War is never a remote possibility. Large cities can also be taken as military targets to push an adversary to surrender.