The rules of international conduct and conflict can seem absurd. But what’s the alternative?
Philadelphia Inquirer, February 26, 2010
The article headline on a page of the Times of London from 1969 read “Plan to kill Hitler was ‘unsporting.’ ”
My students and I were using the newspaper’s online archive to research African independence movements. Next to a piece on Namibia, we found this one. The title provoked exactly the reaction its author had likely intended. Someone said, “Unsporting? Is that a joke?”
